Andrew Gray wrote:
2009/2/25 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
Hoi, When the use case of the Simple Wikipedia is better understood, it may even make room for more simple projects as in simple projects in the biggest languages.
This is quite an interesting thought. The language used by Simple English is (apparently) derived from two defined "simplified versions" of English which were deliberately designed - have there been projects to do the same for, say, French or Spanish, or would we have to do the heavy lifting ourselves?
My attempt at a constructive contribution to this thread would be to suggest that every Simple Wikipedia language, no matter large or small, should start at a Simple Incubator. The incubator seems a proven concept (it has delivered live babies, yes?).
To me it seems a no-brainer that Simple Communities in every language would only activate a sub-set of their languages community, and this implies to me that as such the community could do with bootstrapping in the fashion that incubators do.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen