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entertainment stuff - I care about balance between those and articles
about science and technology. I'm 'old school guy' so for me
encyclopedia is about science and technology first of all.

P.S. I'm going to question you about you contribution as I failed to
discover it myself. I will do that by private mailing to safe
everything that you would like to keep not so public.

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Mark Williamson<node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>
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