> but you are correct in that many articles don’t follow the manual of style > as they lack introductions that are in clear, jargon free English.
It might be interesting to find out what trade-offs people perceive when writing these introductions. How does one write simply, yet "correct" (particularly not create impressions that are "wrong" from an experts standpoint)? I assume this is hard, and it might be very tempting to lean to the expert’s judgement. It is just an hypothesis, but in case it has something to it, a lot of introductions manage the wicked problem quite well. Jan Am Sa., 9. Feb. 2019 um 09:52 Uhr schrieb Jonathan Cardy < werespielchequ...@gmail.com>: > Dear Aaron, > > The policy is already that the introduction should be suitable for a lay > reader, but you are correct in that many articles don’t follow the manual > of style as they lack introductions that are in clear, jargon free English. > What would be useful from the research community is some research on the > sorts of barriers and maybe even a way of finding articles whose leads > might need rewriting. Or even research on the size of the problem. > > Jonathan > > Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> > > ________________________________ > From: Wiki-research-l <wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> on > behalf of Aaron Gray <aaronngray.li...@gmail.com> > Sent: Friday, February 8, 2019 9:44 pm > To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities > Subject: [Wiki-research-l] User type context sensitivity to introdcution > section. > > I am suggesting WikiPedia has context-sensitive articles so if you are a > kid or a layperson or an expert in a field you get a different > introduction. Often the reason people don't read WikiPedia articles is they > are too complex at the start. > > This needs facilitating by WikiMedia technology. > > Thoughts and ideas and possible implementation ideas on this idea are > welcomed. > > Regards, > > Aaron > > -- > Aaron Gray > > Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher, > Information Theorist, and amateur computer scientist. > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- Jan Dittrich Teamleitung UX/Design Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
