In August, there were more requests to Wikipedia from iPhone than from Linux

It is easy to miss the fact that the row for Linux in the first table includes Android and that (according to the second table) excluding Android more than halves Linux's share.

Looking back it seems like iPhone &#38; Linux were almost neck and neck for most of 2010, but iPhone pulled ahead in December 2010 and has stayed slightly more popular since.<p>As a keen desktop Linux user, this saddens me. But I'm also not particularly surprised, Wikipedia on smartphones is pretty useful.

I'm not surprised. Its the number one way to call bullshit when someone at the bar says something stupid. I've got two links at the very top of my first page of apps; one to wikipedia and one to snopes. I'm rarely let down.

And it seems this includes Android, i.e. they don't have a separate entry for it. This means there are roughly as many iPad Wikipedia visits as desktop Linux ones…

well... maybe linux users just learn from the stuff they read on wikipedia and iPhone users don't remember and visit over and over again? :)