Dear Aaron,
The policy is already that the introduction should be suitable for a lay reader, but you
are correct in that many articles don’t follow the manual of style as they lack
introductions that are in clear, jargon free English. What would be useful from the
research community is some research on the sorts of barriers and maybe even a way of
finding articles whose leads might need rewriting. Or even research on the size of the
problem.
Jonathan
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Subject: [Wiki-research-l] User type context sensitivity to introdcution section.
I am suggesting WikiPedia has context-sensitive articles so if you are a
kid or a layperson or an expert in a field you get a different
introduction. Often the reason people don't read WikiPedia articles is they
are too complex at the start.
This needs facilitating by WikiMedia technology.
Thoughts and ideas and possible implementation ideas on this idea are
welcomed.
Regards,
Aaron
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Aaron Gray
Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher,
Information Theorist, and amateur computer scientist.
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