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

[Carcharoth]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com> wrote:

<snip>

> 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.

I had to go and check the etymology of "encyclopedia" after reading that, and...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paideia

That article was where I ended up. I'm still not convinced that the
first *modern* encyclopedias were developed specifically for children,
but that was an interesting article, though it clearly still needs a
lot of work.

Carcharoth