1. Young editors often started editing Wikipedia as teenagers. Their curiosity towards the platform is sometimes triggered by school, in which they heard that Wikipedia is an unreliable source.
2. The editors are less active on social media. A portion have a gaming as hobby but Wikipedia editing replaced online gaming for many.
3. Intrinsic motivations is the key. They learn from the talk page structure and collaboration. They do name by heart that they want to contribute to a world with free, accessible and reliable knowledge.
4. All young people, editors or non-editors, indicate that they do need to feel sufficiently qualified to contribute.
5. Some young people are only interested in the technical aspect of the encyclopedia, while others mainly want to (learn to) write. Some are interested in technical aspects, and others want to write encyclopaedic content.

Young people attract other young people. We want to strengthen the existing group of young active editors to attract new young editors.

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