On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:04 AM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/24 Henning Schlottmann h.schlottmann@gmx.net:
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.
English wikipedia has 2.9 million articles and far more words and can still have things added to it by teenagers. And it's not just different inclusion standards. For example [[Langstone]] meets any reasonable inclusion standards. De does not have an article. [[Ordnance Survey]] is clearly notable. No article on De.
-- geni
Indeed. The DE-Only-PhDs-elitism seems misplaced (and worrying) based on a few articles I compared.
--Falcorian