2009/7/24 Henning Schlottmann
<h.schlottmann(a)gmx.net>et>:
Milos Rancic wrote:
In all cases we need to think seriously how to
educate younger
generations about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
Thanks for all the data and the number crunching. But I think you are
wrong in your assumptions and therefore in your analysis at least
regarding de-WP. Here we are not looking at 15 year olds, we are looking
at retired academics as the future of our user base.
Quite frankly, a 15 years old can't contribute to de-WP anymore. Not
even 20 years olds can. De-WP has reached a level where undergraduates
can do vandal fighting and stuff like that, but writing and improving
articles needs access to academic literature and experience in academic
writing.
English wikipedia has 2.9 million articles and far more words and can
still have things added to it by teenagers. And it's not just
different inclusion standards. For example [[Langstone]] meets any
reasonable inclusion standards. De does not have an article.
[[Ordnance Survey]] is clearly notable. No article on De.
--
geni
Indeed. The DE-Only-PhDs-elitism seems misplaced (and worrying) based on a
few articles I compared.
--Falcorian