Hello Wikipedians,
Please I'd like to know what is the the audience we are targeting. It is, I think, of vital importance because if I write an article for Wikipedia about, let's say, brain tumours am I to write for general public with due simplification or as close to recent scientific advances as possible ?
Is there a policy on that issue ? In my opinion it would be inadvisable to produce a mixture of both because readers/surfers could easily get confused reading closely related articles.
Regards, kpj.
I'd say we should have information at every level of generality and detail: so we can begin with a simple presentation and then get progressively more detailed. We don't have to choose!
Larry
Larry Sanger wrote:
I'd say we should have information at every level of generality and detail: so we can begin with a simple presentation and then get progressively more detailed. We don't have to choose!
I agree with Larry, except to say that, insofar as possible, we should write even high-level articles under the assumption that the person reading only knows as much as was given in the low-level article.
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