On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Ian Woollard <ian.wooll...@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip> > 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. I had to go and check the etymology of "encyclopedia" after reading that, and... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paideia That article was where I ended up. I'm still not convinced that the first *modern* encyclopedias were developed specifically for children, but that was an interesting article, though it clearly still needs a lot of work. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l