Wikipedia entries ranking much higher

Where does the wikipedia entry rank in your serps?

I've seen the wikipedia entry boosted significantly up the ranks lately in search results.

Could Mean:
* Google values wikipedia content more than before
* SEO methods employed by wikipedia are more inline with what google is looking for today (e.g. on-page factors, internal linking from body-copy...?)
* Or that I just like saying wikipedia and wanted to post about wikipedia.

So:
1. Where does the wikipedia entry rank in your serps?
2. Has it climbed in the rankings?
3. Do you like saying wiki-pe-dia too?

 

i was never sure how to say it.

 

I definately agree, wilkpedia and about.com content holds top 10 positions for many of my new sites keywords.

 

They held the top for one of my new sites for a while, but now the link is no where to be found for my site on google but the link is still there on the wikipedia. Weird.

 

I have actually got 7 backlinks from them for one of my sites. I get just as much traffic from them as I get from MSN.

When I last look there Alexa ranking was 16.

 

I think DMoz added a link to them recently. Like, a sitewide link. That could have a slight ranking boost to them. They've always ranked well, and as time goes on more pages are going to get indexed (you know the rest).

 

last time I checked I think they had 3 million pages indexed.

 

How far back was that? I see 213,000,000 right now.

 

The plot thickens.

 

Nathan-

lol..... actual it was 300,000,000 is what I saw. Where I'm at I currently see 246,000,000.