[Wikipedia-l] Re: management

Tue Feb 15 13:16:56 UTC 2005

>From my own experience as a child, especially in elementary school, many of
our users are probably elementary school children. One reason to go a lot
easier than we do with the sophisticated technical language some of us lard
our articles with.

Older and educated users may use data in our articles, but I think they will
mostly consult books if they have a serious interest in a subject. They will
certainly immediately see through the efforts of our POV warriors.

Fred

> From: Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org
> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:53:40 +0100
> To: wikipedia-l at wikipedia.org
> Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Re: management
> 
> I hope I do not disturb this list too much in proposing another topic of
> discussion than artificial languages and ads... but right... we know
> little of our end users.
> 
> 
> We know OURSELVES.
> We do not know WHO read the encyclopedia.
> 
> WHO ?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Anthere a écrit:
>> I have a journalist... looking for a wikipedian (or not) who might
>> report on his use of wikipedia in his working environment.
>> 
>> But he wants someone working in private firm rather, not a student, not
>> a teacher, not a researcher...
>> 
>> He would need an interview as soon as possible, in english is possible.
>> This interview is meant for a french paper (monthly publication I think)
>> on management (so read by a lot of managers of private business firms).
>> 
>> The interview would probably require citing the person name (real name)
>> and likely a picture as well.
>> 
>> Right now, we could not succeed to find such a person.
>> 
>> If you are in such a situation, please contact him at serge.courrier
>> (AT) pobox.com.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks a lot for your help for a desesperate journalist who will not
>> close his article as long as he has not found such a person
>> 
>> Anthere
> 
> 
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