[WikiEN-l] What Readers Say on Inclusion

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Snowspinner wrote:
> 
> On Oct 4, 2005, at 4:32 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
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>>
>> These are excellent observations.  My son's Social Studies teacher  is
>> an info geek who is familiar with Wikipedia.  I should ask him  if he
>> would be willing to run a survey of his class asking:  "What  belongs
>> in an encyclopedia?" and "What should not be in an  encyclopedia?"
> 
> 
> I think it would be important to specify "Wikipedia" not "an 
> encyclopedia," so as to avoid treating Wikipedia like paper.
> 

I don't think we should unduly bias the test group; say "an encyclopedia
with no space limitations". They may /already/ think that Wikipedia is
something /other/ than an Encyclopedia.

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