Wikipedia has outpaced Dictionary.com for audience share, and it gets more traffic than NYTimes.com.

With a lot of press attention surrounding the already popular Wikipedia website, Hitwise data shows an increasing trend in market share of visits to this site, which ranks at number one in the Hitwise Education category, and number 44 in All categories.

The chart below shows the trend in market share of Visits to Wikipedia.org and NYTimes.com since February 2005. Wikipedia.org overtook NYTimes.com in mid-September 2005.

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