Everyone I know uses Wikipedia now for just about everything. Some even using it as their morning news paper, and as their only encyclopedia, so not surprisingly to me that their growth has been insane.

Wikipedia is fast becoming the number-one online resource for web surfers hungry for context about breaking news, in what must be a sad comment on the ability for traditional news media to keep its audiences well-informed.

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia assembled in realtime, has reportedly experienced a 154 per cent hike in traffic during the last year, according to internet traffic watchers at Hitwise.

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