A recent study--run by the WMF itself--shows why people read WP content. Absolutely nothing surprising here. Not very widely reported either.
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/15/w ... wikipedia/
http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/03/why-do ... abbithole/
https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/03/1 ... edium=feed
What you'll never see in studies like this: whether the people looking for an answer to a specific question actually found a usable answer on WP.
Why do people read WP?
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