On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Andreas K. <jayen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The more we adhere to professional standards, the more professionals we > will > be able to attract. You may view abandoning the standards of the male > teenage/early twenties age group as bending the encyclopedia out of shape; > I > view it as Wikipedia growing up. The sooner, the better. I find something very odd in that statement. But first, What professional standards? I always assumed, Wikipedia was the amateur alternative to the professionals, the same white, grey, male academicians that skew the professional standards. The professional group might be more homogeneous than anything else, the only thing that differs is that there no barrier of entry for Wikipedia. Wikipedia was made and is constantly maintained by "male teenage/early twenties age group" you can not reconstitute an entire demographic of a community to satisfy some politically-correct notions of inclusiveness. Regards Theo _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
