On 14 July 2015 at 21:22, Renata St renatawiki@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.