On 19/04/2010, phoebe ayers <[email protected]> wrote: > Wait: high school students aren't our audience? I think one thing that > causes a lot of confusion about Wikipedia is we have no clear audience > -- the general assumption has been that we're writing for the educated > layperson; I'd take that as a smart person with a general high school > education, with deviations from this where the technical nature of the > subject warrants it.
> This of course doesn't excuse poor sourcing or omissions, or bad > writing, but I wonder who the reviewer imagines the audience of a > general encyclopedia to be. I think we're writing for everyone, although ironically the 'pedia' bit of Wikipedia and encyclopedia refers to children (as in PEDIAtric doctors- children's doctors)! Encyclopedias were actually mostly intended to educate children. > -- Phoebe -- -Ian Woollard _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
