[WikiEN-l] What Readers Say on Inclusion

[Ray Saintonge]

Snowspinner wrote:

> On Oct 4, 2005, at 4:32 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
>> 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.

That approach is understandable, but I would not want to prejudice the 
question to depend on whether or not they are familiar with Wikipedia.

My 15 year old son avoids admitting that he ever uses Wikipedia.  To do 
so would involve admitting that he listens to his dad's suggestions. :-)

Ec