I have often used snapshots of simple English Wikipedia, for young students
learning English as a second language. The simple snapshot was the most
popular reading supplement for the youngest OLPC users. It was the best
resource on the web with a relatively uniform low-complexity level. (Some
of the ELI5 efforts are charming, but more entertaining than practical)
There is no easy way to extract such a subset from a mixed 'simple, normal,
and advanced' English Wikipedia. And unfortunately, most
mixed-complexity-level wikis do not allow anything at the extremes: to
simple or to complex and someone else rewrites it.
So: explicit tags with language complexity are needed. Until we have the
tools and social norms to support a variety of different language standards
(dialects, language level) on a single wiki, I hope we can sort the clumsy
trading that is available —at the level of the entire wiki.
There is surely an audience for simple English wv and wb. And for similar
things in other major languages (communities around which exist elsewhere
online, if not yet in wikimedia).
I hope that lc-simple is now indeed valid.
SJ
On Feb 6, 2016 5:13 PM, "Michael Everson" <everson(a)evertype.com> wrote:
On 6 Feb 2016, at 19:34, Oliver Stegen
<oliver_stegen(a)sil.org> wrote:
So: Simple English *wikipedia* can continue but we shouldn't allow other
projects (like the requested wikiversity) for Simple English.
be-tarask is valid.
en-simple is valid and I understand that the simple wiki will be moved to
en-simple
I can think of no reason why
en-simple.wikiversity.org should be subsumed
under
en.wikiversity.org
What are you going to do? Here is a page:
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Genetics/Course
Is this to be duplicated somehow?
How is this to be given in both English and Simple English?
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Blood
en-simple is valid. That’s enough, if people want to work on this. The
Simple English Wikipedia is important to a particular user community.
Michael Everson *
http://www.evertype.com/
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