On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
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. Thanks., GerardM
If anyone is interested, I believe the other language most suited to such a project would be French, because of its lingua franca status in large parts of the developing world.
Thanks, Pharos
2009/2/25 Cary Bass cary@wikimedia.org
Ray Saintonge wrote:
Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
However my central point that a discussion of something as important as closing one of our most important projects in a way that few know about it remains. The !vote is 42:102. We get more at en:WP on a RFA.
A further argument against having this principally discussed on Meta is that those who are best served by Simple do not have the language skills to participate fully in a discussion where there is unlimited use of language.
Ec
In light of that, I understand that there is some kind of simple wikipedia usage among the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) distribution. Perhaps someone could clarify, but if this is the case, then that would make the likelihood that this already failing proposal would pass even more remote.
Cary Bass
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