Wikipedia success faster than expected?
Jan 14th, 2005 by arunram
Wikipedia is taking off faster than it can handle….
I have been dabbling with Wikipedia and editing articles there since June 2004. Since then it seems to have come a long way in terms of awareness and usage amongst the Web surfer community.
How did I figure out?
The servers at Wikipedia are choking and unable to handle the traffic. It happened twice today for me in the span of 4 hours. Servers are either down or way too slow. I Investigated further to understand why….
Alexa’s website says that Wikipedia’s daily page views has tripled in the last year. To get a sense of comparison, Yahoo’s daily page views are 250 times more than that of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is 159 in rank in terms of the daily traffic on the Net. The following graph shows slashdot.org reach declining in the same period.
Guess, its time to upgrade servers and uncork some champagnes…. Way to go wikipedia!
I agree with Arjun, Wiki’s main competetion is with answer sites like Yahoo, Google.
Also, one of the biggest reason Wiki is a success is Google support to Wiki. All pages of Wiki are on first page of Google no matter how useful they are.
Regards
Sunil
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