[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Youth Camp?

[Rory Stolzenberg]

Of course, but we should make sure it's actually something that people would
want to be part of before devoting a lot of effort to it. Frankly, I don't
think that many kids on Wikipedia would be interested in a course called
"Everything you know about Pokemon, and where to put it," and probably even
less would be able to get there.

On 9/6/06, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sigh... let's not go "fundamentalist" on this.
>
> No one is rounding up youth and forcing them to participate only in
> camps. It's an *option* for youth who would like to meet other youth
> do something fun. It's just another choice in the spectrum of
> Wikimedia efforts.
>
> -Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
>
> On 9/6/06, Rory Stolzenberg <rory096 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As a 15 year old myself (as of 22 minutes ago, EST), I completely agree
> with
> > geni.  The best thing about being a 14 year old on Wikipedia is that
> nobody
> > treats you as inferior or different, you can just be a member of the
> > community.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageism.
> >
> > On 9/5/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 9/6/06, Erik Moeller <eloquence at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Thoughts?
> > >
> > > I tend to feel that one of the major attractions of wikipedia to
> > > younger people is that we treat them like everyone else regardless of
> > > age.
> > >
> > > --
> > > geni
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