[WikiEN-l] IPA issues

[William Pietri]

Has anybody actually studied the effect on actual users of removing 
schemes like [[Wikipedia:Pronunciation respelling key]] in favor of IPA?

It's obvious that having IPA pronunciations advances our mission for a 
certain highly educated segment of user. But for the rest of our 
readers, the answer seems to be, "Well, you should learn IPA."

Although it's probably true that they *should* learn it; the question I 
think we should answer is whether they *are* learning it. If not, then 
stripping a key they can read in favor of one they can't would move us 
away from our vision, which is people sharing freely in knowledge.

William