Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wikipedians aged 70 and older

Instructions for adding your name to the our members list
If you are aged 70 or older, you may join the group. Just copy and paste the template below in chronological order.

Chronological order???
Does this mean:
 * Oldest first
 * Oldest last
 * Ordered by date added
 * something else?

Why not alphanumeric of user name?

Downsize43 (talk) 07:15, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Chronological order means in birth order, i.e., oldest to youngest. Buaidh  talk e-mail 10:14, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Senior Wikipedians
WikiProject Wikipedians aged 70 and older has been inactive for some time. The following three proposals may help invigorate this project.


 * 1) Change the name of this project to WikiProject Senior Wikipedians.
 * 2) Open membership in this project to users who are at least 60 years of age and have made at least 50 edits in the past year.
 * 3) Open supporting membership in this project to users who are less than 60 years old but have made at least 50 edits in the past year and support the goals of this project.

Suggested goals for this project:


 * 1) To support collaboration and communication among members for the advancement and improvement of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement.
 * 2) To encourage older people, retired people, and soon-to-be-retired people to participate in Wikipedia both for the advancement of the encyclopedia and for their own personal enjoyment.
 * 3) To encourage older people to share their experience and expertise for the improvement of Wikipedia.
 * 4) To encourage older users to use their experience and expertise to help younger and less experienced users.
 * 5) To encourage participation in local and regional Wikimedia events.
 * 6) To sponsor Wikipedia meetings and classes at places where older people gather.
 * 7) To advocate for the elimination of ageism and sexism in Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement.

Please add your suggestions for this project at Senior Wikipedians. Thank you, Buaidh  talk e-mail 01:15, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

If you don't wish to receive any further information about Senior Wikipedians, please remove your username from our . Thanks.


 * I suggest that "Senior" should be avoided, as it's ambiguous between chronological seniority and some kind of power ranking. We could just be non-euphemistic and talk about "Older Wikipedians"?
 * This group seems to have had a low profile, as I'd never heard of it until spotting a note on a user talk page which is on my watchlist for some historical reason. Perhaps the Signpost would be a good place to raise its profile? Pam  D  14:33, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I suggest that this page should be deleted. All Wikipedians are equal. I am 85. Why do you want to treat me different from any other Wikipedian? Bduke (talk) 03:51, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm only 76, but I've been the object of ageist harassment editing Wikipedia. It's not about treating users any differently. It's about encouraging older folks to use their expertise to improve Wikipedia. I think far too few people over 60 edit Wikipedia when many are retired and have the time. What do you think? Buaidh  talk e-mail 05:06, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I am very sorry that you have been the object of ageist harassment editing Wikipedia. I have never been subjected to that. I entirely agree that we should have more older folks editing wikipedia, but we have to get them using computers first, so this has to be done at very local levels - old folks homes, etc. I actually now live in an old folks home, so I will see what I can do here. Bduke (talk) 05:42, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Well, I'm currently 80, and I was 78 when I was elected to ArbCom. Despite the clues I've left over the years, including the octogenarian userbox on my home page, I have never encountered any comment about my age on Wikipedia, whereas I began encountering age discrimination in the workplace before I was 50. As for needing to encouragen older people to use computers, my step-father was buying and selling on e-bay in his 90s, and my mother gave up researching genealogy on-line in her late 90s, when her eyesight got too bad. I have nothing against this project, but I don't spend a lot of time participating in the projects I have signed up for. Donald Albury 13:48, 14 July 2024 (UTC)