[Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

[geni]

2009/7/24 Henning Schlottmann <h.schlottmann at gmx.net>:
> 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.

English wikipedia has 2.9 million articles and far more words and can
still have things added to it by teenagers. And it's not just
different inclusion standards. For example [[Langstone]] meets any
reasonable inclusion standards. De does not have an article.
[[Ordnance Survey]] is clearly notable. No article on De.

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geni