[Wikipedia-l] A Three Way Split

[Tom Parmenter]

|From: Khendon <jason at jasonandali.org.uk>
|Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:05:57 +0100
|
|On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:45:02PM +0200, Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz wrote:
|> Should Wikipedia articles be made understandable, without
|> any preparation, to secondary education students and
|> links to more specialist resources be provided ?
|> Or should we strive for the best, most up-to-date and
|> accurate content ?
|
|I don't really understand why we might want to or have to choose between
|the two. Why not both?
|
|-- 
|Khendon  (Jason Williams)
|khendon at khendon.org.uk    http://www.jasonandali.org.uk/jason/
|

Indeed, with a non-paper encyclopedia, we can write it up for the
general inquirer and put "click here for a more detailed and accurate
treatment".  

You know, my granddaughter is in the sixth grade.  You can read plenty
at that level.  I can read at the "got part of a master's degree"
level, but I don't do it every day or all the time.  You can also
write plenty at that level if you make the effort.  It's all in the
attitude.  Are you writing to teach?  Or not?

Tom Parmenter
Ortolan88