[Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

[Pavlo Shevelo]

Oh, Milos...

We were talking about articles on nuclear physics, aren't we?
... and you suddenly switched to stewardship. Why?

With all due respect to the institution of stewardship (and each of
our Stewards personally ;) ) what's the big deal with that in context
of what we were talking before you switched.

Stewardship is (I'm simplifying) top level of adminship (sysopship).
So if we have 16 year old addmin (sysop) so it 's not big surprise to
see  19-year old steward.

... but what about articles on nuclear phisics or same
scientific/technology topic written by 19 year old guy/lady? ...
FA-grade articles if any?

... and let's discuss not exceptions but... mainstream.
I completely agree with David Gerard, Mark and others that there is
bright young contributors (new Stephen Hawking etc.) but I (1001th
confirmation!) never said that we should stop recruiting among
youngsters.



On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Milos Rancic<millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Pavlo Shevelo<pavlo.shevelo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Let me illustrate by example:
>> I started to invest good portion of my time into comforting 11 (!)
>> years old boy despite the fact that his usage of "be bold" rule to
>> several most popular templates was like hurricane that not each vandal
>> may create :)
>>
>>> 17 is probably interested more in music than in nuclear physics, but
>>> just in two years she or he may be a valuable contributor in that
>>> scientific field.
>>
>> Let's be realistic (though not cynical ;) ):
>>
>> 1. Far not in two years - not less than in 10 years. Will we be
>> satisfied by popmusics/games-pedia until than +2-3 years (to create
>> articles);
>> 2. She or he may and may not became contributor in some scientific
>> field. If she/he will see work of elders (in best - eventually pass
>> the aprenticeship under control of master) during all these years it
>> will increase both that probability to became and quality of future
>> contribution.
>
> I have quite opposite experiences. One of them had become Wikimedian
> with 16-17 and two years later became a steward (by passing elections
> with ~95% of support).
>
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