http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may07/lally/05lally.html
Wikipedia referrals to UW Libraries Digital Collections, October 2005 - September 2006
In May 2006, the University of Washington Libraries began integrating their digital collections into the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
Why?
Students often start their research outside of the library’s Web site, so it made sense to put links in one of the top Web reference resources to lead students back to resources available to them in the library.
Results?
Analysis of server statistics indicates that Wikipedia is indeed driving more traffic to the UW site. There was a steady increase in Wikipedia referrals to UW Libraries’ digital collections between October 2005 and September 2006 and a sharp upward spike between April and September 2006.
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Source of the above news:
http://www.oclc.org/asiapacific/en/
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