Ok, this discussion has 60 arguments and we are getting nowhere. Why don't
we follow Google's example (what that is is for you to figure out)?
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Andreas K. <jayen466(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:13 PM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 20 October 2011 16:02, Andreas K.
<jayen466(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Not everybody uses the Internet in the same way.
Many younger users are
fairly inured to porn and gore, having seen it all before. But a lot of
the
people who have something to offer Wikipedia in
the, you know,
*educational*
field, are turned off by it, finding it crass and
juvenile.
This is the first I've seen a filter advocated as the solution to the
expert problem. Which was always previously put in terms of not being
able to keep idiots out of experts' faces.
But you're late - the expert problem turns out to be dissolving in a
surprising manner, i.e. they're coming to us anyway, because they want
their fields properly represented in the biggest encyclopedia. Which
is not a reason for complacency, but it *is* a reason to think twice
about using claims of the expert problem as justification for bending
the encyclopedia all out of shape for any other reason.
I wasn't actually saying that à propos the image filter, more in relation
to
the general point about editorial judgment.
Cultures differ, and like attracts like. You know our demographics. They're
still far from ideal.
* Half of our editors are 21 or younger.
* Only a quarter are 30 or older, yet this is the demographic with the most
expertise.
* 87.5 per cent are male.
* Only about 1 in 50 is a mother.
The more we adhere to professional standards, the more professionals we
will
be able to attract. You may view abandoning the standards of the male
teenage/early twenties age group as bending the encyclopedia out of shape;
I
view it as Wikipedia growing up. The sooner, the better.
Andreas
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