And...urm...I wrote the article that hit 100k. That's not the point, but, just felt the need to preface...
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Announcements#May_29.2C_2013
Simple English is a Wikipedia that is for children and adults learning how to speak English.
:)
#justsayin
Sarah
Wow! What a great achievement for Simple (and for you, Sarah ;-))
On Thursday, May 30, 2013, Sarah Stierch wrote:
And...urm...I wrote the article that hit 100k. That's not the point, but, just felt the need to preface...
http://simple.wikipedia.org/**wiki/Wikipedia:Announcements#** May_29.2C_2013http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Announcements#May_29.2C_2013
Simple English is a Wikipedia that is for children and adults learning how to speak English.
:)
#justsayin
Sarah
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Hi Sarah,
that sounds like an important milestone! Do we have any feedback as to how Simple is actually used by "children and adults learning how to speak English"?
Daniel
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.com wrote:
And...urm...I wrote the article that hit 100k. That's not the point, but, just felt the need to preface...
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Announcements#May_29.2C_2013
Simple English is a Wikipedia that is for children and adults learning how to speak English.
:)
#justsayin
Sarah
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No clue. I generally "translate" my articles in English to it and go about my business. We'd have to ask around.
Sarah
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On May 30, 2013, at 2:49 AM, Daniel Mietchen daniel.mietchen@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi Sarah,
that sounds like an important milestone! Do we have any feedback as to how Simple is actually used by "children and adults learning how to speak English"?
Daniel
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.com wrote:
And...urm...I wrote the article that hit 100k. That's not the point, but, just felt the need to preface...
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Announcements#May_29.2C_2013
Simple English is a Wikipedia that is for children and adults learning how to speak English.
:)
#justsayin
Sarah
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Le 30/05/2013 15:28, Sarah Stierch a écrit :
No clue. I generally "translate" my articles in English to it and go about my business. We'd have to ask around.
Whereas children are included as Simple English Wikipedia (SEWP) expected audience, repeated discussions [1] show that this project has generally been quite ambiguous about being designed for children. It does have valuable content that fit better to children than the standard English Wikipedia, but is hardly put forward as an encyclopedia for children.
Search engines and the most used one certainly reflects this uncertainty. The query http://www.google.com/search?q=Encyclopedia_for_children gets kids.britannica.com, some paper encyclopedia on amazon.com and some mirror sites of the standard english Wikipedia displayed as "for children", but SEWP doesn't show up.
Hence the Wikikids proposal ! Our clue on fr.vikidia.org (one of the existing Wikikids-like project) on it being actually used by children is the numerous messages they drop on the Guestbook when invited to write "what they think of Vikidia" by a sitenotice : http://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Vikidia:Livre_d%27or : Many thanks and enthusiasm ! :-) The only sad thing is that it won't be launched in other languages (and as a WM sister project) without your help and support (to fix the proposal, ask questions, write a RFC...)
See : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids just set down : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids/Relation_to_Simple_English_Wikipedia
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Sim...)
On May 30, 2013, at 2:49 AM, Daniel Mietchen daniel.mietchen@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi Sarah,
that sounds like an important milestone! Do we have any feedback as to how Simple is actually used by "children and adults learning how to speak English"?
Daniel
On 30 May 2013 03:36, Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.com wrote:
Simple English is a Wikipedia that is for children and adults learning how to speak English.
And for people with a learning disability.
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Or for people who like clear English!
On 30 May 2013 12:10, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 30 May 2013 03:36, Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.com wrote:
Simple English is a Wikipedia that is for children and adults learning
how
to speak English.
And for people with a learning disability.
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Congratulations!
Or for people who like clear English!
On 30 May 2013 12:10, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 30 May 2013 03:36, Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.com wrote:
Simple English is a Wikipedia that is for children and adults learning
how
to speak English.
And for people with a learning disability.
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On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 30 May 2013 03:36, Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.com wrote:
Simple English is a Wikipedia that is for children and adults learning how to speak English.
And for people with a learning disability.
Ahem…
On 30.05.2013 04:36, Sarah Stierch wrote:
And...urm...I wrote the article that hit 100k. That's not the point, but, just felt the need to preface...
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Announcements#May_29.2C_2013
Simple English is a Wikipedia that is for children and adults learning how to speak English.
:)
#justsayin
Sarah
Also my congratulations, and I think it is good that we have this kind of messages on this mailing list. These milestones are an important part of the Wikimedia movement.
Cheers Yaroslav
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