* Andreas K. wrote: >Sounds good. I was going by last year's United Nations University survey, > >http://www.wikipediasurvey.org/docs/Wikipedia_Overview_15March2010-FINAL.pdf > >which is older, but had a much larger sample size (176,000 vs. 5,300, >comprising both readers and editors).
I think the earlier study concluded some time in November 2008 while the more recent one concluded in April 2011, so there are about 2 1/2 years between them. Unfortunately the earlier study, at least in the report a- bove, only has average age for contributors, no median or quartiles or other groups that would allow for a meaningful comparison to the current study. It's normal and expected that younger people are more likely to make extensive use of an encyclopedia as they study the most. With only 7.42% regular contributors in the 2008 study, the age distribution does not tell us much about possible bias due to age in editorial judgement. There may be more detailed results but I could not immediately find any. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjo...@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
