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 Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Wiki-research-l &lt;wiki-research-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; on behalf of Aaron Gray &lt;aaronngray.lists(a)gmail.com&gt; Sent: Friday, February 8, 2019 9:44 pm To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities 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 -- Aaron Gray Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher, Information Theorist, and amateur computer scientist. _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

but you are correct in that many articles don’t follow the manual of

as they lack introductions that are in clear, jargon free English.

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 Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Wiki-research-l &lt;wiki-research-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; on behalf of Aaron Gray &lt;aaronngray.lists(a)gmail.com&gt; Sent: Friday, February 8, 2019 9:44 pm To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities 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 -- Aaron Gray Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher, Information Theorist, and amateur computer scientist. _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l