Do you have data to back this up? For the record, I'll be 20 in August and the main areas I edited were pages about cultures, countries, and languages since I was about 15.
There are lots of intelligent young people scattered across the globe, I don't know how much they are able to contribute to de.wp but when it comes to en.wp, you will find some of the brightest young people (in addition to some not-so-bright ones (-: perhaps) Mark On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Pavlo Shevelo<pavlo.shev...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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 > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l