[Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

Cary Bass cary at wikimedia.org
Tue Feb 24 23:59:17 UTC 2009


Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
>> However my central point that a discussion of something as important as
>> closing one of our most important projects in a way that few know about
>> it remains. The !vote is 42:102. We get more at en:WP on a RFA.
> 
> A further argument against having this principally discussed on Meta is 
> that those who are best served by Simple do not have the language skills 
> to participate fully in a discussion where there is unlimited use of 
> language.
> 
> Ec

In light of that, I understand that there is some kind of simple
wikipedia usage among the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) distribution.
Perhaps someone could clarify, but if this is the case, then that would
make the likelihood that this already failing proposal would pass even
more remote.

Cary Bass



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