> Here we are not looking at 15 year olds, we are looking > at retired academics as the future of our user base.
That's right point! If Wikipedia is education tool we should (!) think about something more than "cross-education" of teenagers and students As a matter od fact teenagers contribute mainly to articles about sports, movies and other entertainment staff. Almost only exception is computers hardware and software stuff. On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Henning Schlottmann<h.schlottm...@gmx.net> wrote: > Milos Rancic wrote: >> In all cases we need to think seriously how to educate younger >> generations about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. > > Thanks for all the data and the number crunching. But I think you are > wrong in your assumptions and therefore in your analysis at least > regarding de-WP. Here we are not looking at 15 year olds, we are looking > at retired academics as the future of our user base. > > Quite frankly, a 15 years old can't contribute to de-WP anymore. Not > even 20 years olds can. De-WP has reached a level where undergraduates > can do vandal fighting and stuff like that, but writing and improving > articles needs access to academic literature and experience in academic > writing. 25 to 45 years olds usually have other priorities, they build a > career and a family. > > It is the logical step to look for retired academics, because they have > the expertise needed. The demographics in the 15-35 range therefore are > completely irrelevant for de-WP. > > Ciao Henning > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l