Keywords: Academic wikipedia 05-08.JPG Growth of academic interest in Wikipedia based on the number of published conference and journal papers per year Years 2002-2007 no papers published in 2001 based on mid-May 2008 revision of w Wikipedia Wikipedia in academic studies Prepared by User Piotrus and released to public domain First quarter 2008 results 9 journal publications and 15 conference papers not included due to poor reliability Numbers for other years 2002 2 1 2003 2 3 2004 2 4 2005 6 17 2006 16 35 2007 29 73 Own as uploaded Piotrus PD Image Academic wikipedia 02-06 JPG for old 2006 graph Wikipedia statistics |