The Ice Bucket Challenge, which has dominated Facebook News Feeds with videos of people dumping ice water on themselves in support of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research, has raised more than $100 million for the ALS Association since it gained traction at the end of July. But the movement has its detractors, and many wonder how many participants have actually learned about the disease, rather than simply jumping on the viral bandwagon.
New data from the Wikimedia Foundation sheds some positive light, however, indicating that an increased number of people have at least searched for more information about the neurodegenerative disease. The ALS Wikipedia page in English was viewed 2.89 million times in August; that's compared to an average of only 163,300 times per month between January 2013 and July 2014 — marking an 18-fold increase. Read more...
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