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@gmail.com:
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@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:09 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
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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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