Indeed, it should never be forgotten that the target audience for encyclopedias is skewed towards younger people. Encyclopaedias have traditionally been marketed as an investment in your childs future.
Articles on Pokemon and suchlike may be of much more interest to teenagers than to many on this forum but it should never be forgotten that these things are of interest to many people.
One of the reasons for Wikipedia's success in my view is that we cover stuff that other encyclopedias don't. According to the Yahoo Buzz Index, ( http://buzz.yahoo.com/overall/) the top five searches are: Paris Hilton, 50 Cent, Lost, Mariah Carey and Harry Potter.
We have articles on those topics. The traditional encyclopedias don't. That's one of the reasons why we're the most popular encyclopedia in the world.
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Keith Old
Keith Old
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On 11/14/05, Sam Korn smoddy@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/13/05, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
And if not, well, we'll have the best encyclopedia of anime and computer games in the world. There's something to be said for that. [[Exploding sheep]] is a fascinating article, for example.
And there's always the possibility that, as so many people want to *write* these articles, just some may want to _read_ them.
Just a possibility, mind.
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