Why do people go to Wikipedia? A survey suggests it’s their desire to go down that random rabbithole
beSpacific 2018-03-18
Summary:
NeimanLab: “What’s motivated people to visit the Wikipedia pages they’re reading? Wikipedia recently tried to answer that question at scale by asking a sample of Wikipedia readers last June, “Why are you reading this article today?” It seems a lot of people go to Wikipedia for earnest, serious, information-seeking reasons. The study collected 215,000 responses […]