[Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

[Mark Williamson]

Do you have data to back this up? For the record, I'll be 20 in August
and the main areas I edited were pages about cultures, countries, and
languages since I was about 15.

There are lots of intelligent young people scattered across the globe,
I don't know how much they are able to contribute to de.wp but when it
comes to en.wp, you will find some of the brightest young people (in
addition to some not-so-bright ones (-: perhaps)

Mark

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Pavlo Shevelo<pavlo.shevelo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> foundation-l mailing list
>> foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> foundation-l mailing list
> foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>