[Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

[Pavlo Shevelo]

> 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 at 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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