[WikiEN-l] "Exclusion" essay

[Oldak Quill]

On 20/07/06, Elisabeth Bauer <elian at djini.de> wrote:
> One hypothesis:
> Allowing too much "fancruft" in Wikipedia creates an imbalance in the community
> structure. There is a really large pool of 15 year old, computer savy kids (some
> may be older) who get easily attracted to writing wikipedia articles about f.e.
> star trek compared to a very small pool of for example experts on let's say
> homer. The latter group won't be as easily drawn into writing for wikipedia than
> the first. And they will be less and less willing to do so, if they find a
> community dominated by 15 year old star trek fans.

An entirely unrealistic hypothesis. en.Wikipedia, and its userbase, is
too large to be subject to big changes in demographics as you suggest.


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