[Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 00:16:19 UTC 2009


Hoi,
When the use case of the Simple Wikipedia is better understood, it may even
make room for more simple projects as in simple projects in the biggest
languages.
Thanks.,
      GerardM

2009/2/25 Cary Bass <cary at wikimedia.org>

> 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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