On 19/04/2010, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Wait: high school students aren't our audience? I
think one thing that
causes a lot of confusion about Wikipedia is we have no clear audience
-- the general assumption has been that we're writing for the educated
layperson; I'd take that as a smart person with a general high school
education, with deviations from this where the technical nature of the
subject warrants it.
This of course doesn't excuse poor sourcing or
omissions, or bad
writing, but I wonder who the reviewer imagines the audience of a
general encyclopedia to be.
I think we're writing for everyone, although ironically the 'pedia'
bit of Wikipedia and encyclopedia refers to children (as in PEDIAtric
doctors- children's doctors)!
Encyclopedias were actually mostly intended to educate children.
-- Phoebe
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-Ian Woollard