[WikiEN-l] UIC Journal: Evaluating quality control of Wikipedia's feature[d] articles

[Ian Woollard]

On 19/04/2010, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wait: high school students aren't our audience? I think one thing that
> causes a lot of confusion about Wikipedia is we have no clear audience
> -- the general assumption has been that we're writing for the educated
> layperson; I'd take that as a smart person with a general high school
> education, with deviations from this where the technical nature of the
> subject warrants it.

> This of course doesn't excuse poor sourcing or omissions, or bad
> writing, but I wonder who the reviewer imagines the audience of a
> general encyclopedia to be.

I think we're writing for everyone, although ironically the 'pedia'
bit of Wikipedia and encyclopedia refers to children (as in PEDIAtric
doctors- children's doctors)!

Encyclopedias were actually mostly intended to educate children.

> -- Phoebe

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-Ian Woollard