On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:04 AM, geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/7/24 Henning Schlottmann <h.schlottm...@gmx.net>: > > 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. > > English wikipedia has 2.9 million articles and far more words and can > still have things added to it by teenagers. And it's not just > different inclusion standards. For example [[Langstone]] meets any > reasonable inclusion standards. De does not have an article. > [[Ordnance Survey]] is clearly notable. No article on De. > > -- > geni >
Indeed. The DE-Only-PhDs-elitism seems misplaced (and worrying) based on a few articles I compared. --Falcorian _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l