Here we are not looking at 15 year olds, we are looking at retired academics as the future of our user base.
That's right point!
If Wikipedia is education tool we should (!) think about something more than "cross-education" of teenagers and students
As a matter od fact teenagers contribute mainly to articles about sports, movies and other entertainment staff. Almost only exception is computers hardware and software stuff.
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Henning Schlottmannh.schlottmann@gmx.net wrote:
Milos Rancic wrote:
In all cases we need to think seriously how to educate younger generations about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
Thanks for all the data and the number crunching. But I think you are wrong in your assumptions and therefore in your analysis at least regarding de-WP. Here we are not looking at 15 year olds, we are looking at retired academics as the future of our user base.
Quite frankly, a 15 years old can't contribute to de-WP anymore. Not even 20 years olds can. De-WP has reached a level where undergraduates can do vandal fighting and stuff like that, but writing and improving articles needs access to academic literature and experience in academic writing. 25 to 45 years olds usually have other priorities, they build a career and a family.
It is the logical step to look for retired academics, because they have the expertise needed. The demographics in the 15-35 range therefore are completely irrelevant for de-WP.
Ciao Henning
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