On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Mathias Damour
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Your proposal on this 2010 discussion, (
> http://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Vikidia:Wikimini_et_Vikidia ) to which I anserwed
> by the one you mention, was that Vikida would switch its reader target to 13
> to 18 years old people, and cohabit in this manner with Wikimini which would
> be for 8-13 years old children.
>
> One of my arguments against that was that I disagree with the assumption
> that this proposal held, which is that children schould write for children,
> and teenagers for teenagers.

I think "children" and "teenagers" are different audiences.
Authors of any age can write for those two audiences.

I could imagine having up to three versions of articles about any
topic: with complexity suitable for audiences of ages "6-12", "13-19",
"any".

> In the same way, Wikipedia is roughly written by students/academics for
> high-school pupils, there is a kind of interval between the average editor
> and average reader.

That's unclear - sometimes there are both short and long versions of
WP articles.
The language for specialized topics is often much more advanced than
suitable for high-school students.

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