Do you have data to back this up? For the record, I'll be 20 in August
and the main areas I edited were pages about cultures, countries, and
languages since I was about 15.
There are lots of intelligent young people scattered across the globe,
I don't know how much they are able to contribute to de.wp but when it
comes to en.wp, you will find some of the brightest young people (in
addition to some not-so-bright ones (-: perhaps)
Mark
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Pavlo Shevelo<pavlo.shevelo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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
Schlottmann<h.schlottmann(a)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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