No subject

contributor base is going to be drawn from. Will people from simple.wp =
be
interested in doing news articles? Can the Wikipedia Academies be =
expanded
to suggest working on Wikinews? - Simple or otherwise. Can we tap into =
the
senior citizen population and get them writing the news so their
grandchildren can read it?


Brian McNeil

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

There is no single standardized Simple English. Simple.wp, last time I
checked, didn't have a concrete defined vocabulary... but that was a
while ago, so it may have one now.

Mark

2008/6/23 Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>:
> Al Tally wrote:
>> 2008/6/20 Thomas Dalton:
>>
>>> 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 rather categorical POV push on your part.  Your lack of
> imagination should not be treated as a condition equivalent to =
everyone
> else's disability.
>
> While it is true that simple languages do not have separate ISO codes
> from their complete counterparts, reference to that seems more like an
> excuse than a reason.
>
> The closing statement on the cited page also states:
>    1. No standard orthography,
>    2. No literature.
> These are both utterly false.
>
> Ec
>
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