As much as I appreciate the potential usefulness of Simple, I think it
would work better if there were more strict guidelines on language
usage instead of people arbitrarily "dumbing down" articles to fit
their own ideas of what is simple.
2009/3/7 Aphaia <aphaia(a)gmail.com>om>:
I would like to encourage Simple English Wikipedia
fans to blog about
it ... particularly if you are non-English native speakers. The wiki
is just not known. They might know their mother tongue Wikipedia and
English one but not Simplewiki.
Last year I just mentioned to the Simple English Wikipedia just as one
of easy-reading materials for Second Language Acquisition. In a social
bookmark service popular in Japan, perhaps related to my blog entry,
Simplewiki yielded over 50 bookmarks just one day. And if I recall
correctly, one of Simple English Wikipedia virtue is for non-natives
education and convenience? Could we work more aggressively for our
potential readership?
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Al Tally <majorly.wiki(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:09 PM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Eh I'm sure this was discussed somewhere already... anyway, it brought a ton
of new editors in, which was both good and bad (we desperately need more
good editors, but not vandals!)
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Alex
(User:Majorly)
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