On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 at 08:51, Jonathan Cardy <werespielchequers(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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.
I am thinking about kids of various age groups too, maybe working by school
type ?
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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