[Foundation-l] Please REJECT the latin wikinews project.inmediatly

[Brian McNeil]

I already stated that, as one of the more senior Wikinews contributors, I
would welcome an effort to make templates and write articles within the
Simple English limited vocabulary on the standard English Wikinews project.
Writing simple English is hard; I doubt I could do it. In addition, the
focus is not primarily the news event, but the demonstration of the basics
of the language in use. News has a potential to be good for this because
there is a chance students already know the story from sources in their own
language. There is scope to infer meaning from unknown words and increase
known vocabulary.

I cannot ever see an independent Simple English Wikinews working. The very
idea is closer to a Wikiversity language education project than a news
dissemination project.

I would be delighted to see the proponents of such a project redirected to
the main English Wikinews, and the Wikinews-l mailing list. I believe the
project can find a place for them and their work - provided it is recognised
that they are providing educational texts based on current affairs.


Brian McNeil

-----Original Message-----
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Herbert
Sent: 23 June 2008 20:43
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Please REJECT the latin wikinews
project.inmediatly

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Al Tally <majorly.wiki at googlemail.com>
wrote:
> 2008/6/20 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
>
>> Agreed. A Simple English Wikinews would be really useful. Getting
>> internationally relevant news in every language is difficult, but
>> getting it in Simple English would be easy, and then a large number of
>> people can benefit from it.
>>
>
> See
>
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikinews_Simple_En
glish
>
> It cannot be created.

That's a "rejected under current policy, you might do it within
existing english Wikinews" not "cannot be created".

There's an important difference...


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com

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