Top-Cited Wikipedia Entries by Bloggers in 2006

Posted on December 28, 2006

Nielsen BuzzMetrics has released data about which Wikipedia articles bloggers most referenced from January 1st to December 10th. It isn't quite the entire year but it does give you an idea of what some of the top stories and top subjects of 2006 were.

Web 2.0 -- 206
Steve Irvin -- 161
Mark Foley Scandal -- 142
Blog -- 147
Ajax -- 133
World War II -- 143
Snakes on a Plane -- 126
Meme -- 132
Wiki -- 129
RSS -- 122
Podcasting -- 127
George Bush -- 129
Podcast -- 111
Net Neutrality -- 100

Nielsen BuzzMetrics also said that Wikipedia outranks mentions of the term "encyclopedia" by a 6-to-1 margin. The BuzzMetrics press release also lists some Wikipedia-happy bloggers that frequently reference Wikipedia. The following blogs linked to Wikipedia 50 or more times since January 1st according to BuzzMetrics: Boing Boing, Look at This, Micropersuasion, TCAL.net, SmartMobs, Gadling, Joho, Lifehacker, Metafilter, Gothamist, 2Blowhards, Splinters, Chris Abraham, Slashdot and Unmediated. No doubt there are probably many more bloggers that linked to Wikipedia at least 50 times in 2006 since that is only about once a week.