Hello, The case with Simple English WP is a little more complicated: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Simple_English_Wikipedia Basic English is only one standard they are looking at. There should be also more consideration about the target group. If a simple wikipedia meant to be a tool to learn the language?
Kind regards Ziko
2011/6/20 Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com:
This was intended to be reply to the list.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Projects in simple languages Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:12:16 +0100 From: Michael Everson everson@evertype.com To: Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com
On 06/20/2011 08:55 PM, David Gerard wrote:
I have been around the Wikimedia projects since 2004. This is the very first time I have ever heard any official subset of English mentioned in any connection with the Simple English Wikipedia. Did I just miss past documentation to this effect? Was this part of its founding? When was Basic English first linked with Simple?
Evidently from the beginning.
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_English_Wikipedia
Simple English Wikipedia is a Wikipedia encyclopedia, written in basic English.[1]
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English
Even in the earliest revision of the main page http://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=461 it refers to controlled vocabulary of 1000-2000 words.
Ogden's Basic English was published in 1940. It's unlikely that those who asked for simple.wikipedia.org were unaware of it.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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