Kelly Martin wrote:
On 10/7/05, Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.org wrote:
But who looks up "Earth" in an encyclopaedia?
My seven-year-old daughter. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia for everyone, not just geeks who are looking for hyper-specialized trivia.
I would expect more people to read [[Brutalist architecture]] than
[[Architecture]]....
You have surprising expectations.
I echo this. I've got a two year old daughter. One of the reasons I'm so active in Wikipedia is that I want her to have a good reference source for when we start teaching her. She's already reading a little, so it won't be too long before she starts visiting Wikipedia (under careful supervision, mind you) and not log after that before she starts editing. (I'm not letting her serve on ArbCom until she's 25, though.)
She should be ready by her third birthday. :-)
What interests a three-year old? As adults we may like other material. Let's hope that the kind of material that may interest her has not been deleted as non-notable.
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