On 14 July 2015 at 21:22, Renata St <renatawiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi.
So I saw this YouTube video yesterday about kids reacting to printed
encyclopedia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7aJ3xaDMuM&noredirect=1
It made me sad. And very fearful of the future of Wikipedia.
These kids do not appreciate knowledge and information because they grew up
with its abundance. When I was growing up (and I am only 30), printed
encyclopedia was the only research tool.
You would have been 8 years old when Encarta was launched.
Those kids never deprived of knowledge and information
will never know how
precious it is.
Eh you always hit walls sooner or later. A lot of information is still
buried in libraries (the best soruce I'm aware of for theThe jewelry of
roman Britain is a book written in 1996). Other stuff is behind paywalls or
is commercially sensitive. Or simply doesn't exist (there doesn't seem to
be a solid history of calshot castle anywhere).
They will not have the same love that is required to
edit
Wikipedia and write quality articles. And it makes me sad.
I think there will be other motivations.
--
geni