I didn't know the language committee was empowered to decide on whether or not Simples were made. I thought your job was to determine valid languages. I absolutely cannot support the continued existence of this body due to these unknown powers and will make my voice known the next time someone offers to can it.
________________________________ From: Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:19:47 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia
Hoi, Possibly. Now for some cold water. At this moment the policy is explicit. We do not accept any new Simple projects in any language. What I said was that it would be good when there are some good numbers that prove the value of a simple project. Once this is more clear, we may reconsider. Thanks, GerardM
2009/2/25 Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com
I could be wrong, but I think you're misreading the point here. It's that we should Incubate more Simples in more languages, not that we need a Simple Incubator...
-Chad
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Gerard Meijssen < gerard.meijssen@gmail.com
wrote:
Hoi, There is no room nor need for a simple Incubator. One suffices. Thanks. GerardM
2009/2/25 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com
"No, Absolutely not."
Eh? "No, Absolutely not." to what precisely? You say incubator should
be
a
phase for projects? I said simple should incubate for even larger languages. Where is the "No, Absolutely not." directed at?
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
No, Absolutely not. The Incubator is a vital resource that can easily
accomadote
any language any project. If anything I would make the Incubator
compulsory
for ANY project. The reason for this is obvious; the Incubator works. Thanks. GerardM
2009/2/25 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com
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
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