世論 What Japan Thinks

I haven’t talked about Wikipedia for a while, so here goes with a report from japan.internet.com on the second regular survey from goo Research on Wikipedia. The previous survey was conducted two months ago.

Demogrpahics

Between the 9th and 13th of July 2007 1,045 members of goo Research’s online monitor group successfully completed an internet-based private questionnaire. 53.4% of the sample was male, 15.8% in their teens, 16.4% in their twenties, 22.3% in their thirties, 16.6% in their forties, and 29.0% aged fifty or older.

Research results

Q1: Do you know the online free encyclopedia called “Wikipedia”? (Sample size=1,045)

Yes	78.8%
No	21.2%

The awareness of Wikipedia is up about 5 percentage points from the similar question just two months ago.

Q2: Do you know that Wikipedia uses a “Wiki”-based system? (Sample size=1,045)

Yes	22.3%
No	77.7%

Q3: What sort of Wiki-based site have you used? (Sample size=86, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Collected information site	52	60.5%
Game information site	36	41.9%
Personal memo site	25	29.1%
Social intercourse site	9	10.5%
Diary site	6	7.0%
Other	9	10.5%