[Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

[Chris Down]

I see no '100 edits at meta' restriction. Am I missing something?

- Chris

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Brian Salter-Duke
<b_duke at bigpond.com.au>wrote:

> I am rather disturbed at the discussion on meta here:-
>
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Simple_English_(2)_Wikipedia<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Simple_English_%282%29_Wikipedia>
>
> about closing this project and I am surpried that the issue has not come
> up here. While the consensus is clearly against closure, so it likely
> will not happen, there are issues. Is this kind of discussion on Meta
> really the best way to handle this kind of issue? I am particularly
> concerned about the suggestion that only meta regulars (with more than
> 100 edits there) can contribute. This prevents or at least discourages
> the users of Simple from going to Meta to comment. I also wonder whether
> Simple editors really know about this issue, although I see it is
> mentioned on their main page.
>
> There is also a similar discussion about closing the Simple Wiktionary.
>
> These issues need a much wider and intelligent debate than they are
> receiving. They are too important for there to be any chance that they
> just dissappear one day, with most people not knowing about it.
>
> Brian.
>
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