[Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

[Falcorian]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:04 AM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> geni
>

Indeed. The DE-Only-PhDs-elitism seems misplaced (and worrying) based on a
few articles I compared.

--Falcorian