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(a)gmail.com>om>:
This was intended to be reply to the list.
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Projects in simple languages
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:12:16 +0100
From: Michael Everson <everson(a)evertype.com>
To: Milos Rancic <millosh(a)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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