[Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

"No,
Absolutely not."

Eh? "No, Absolutely not." to what precisely? You say incubator should be a
phase for projects? I said simple should incubate for even larger
languages. Where is the "No, Absolutely not." directed at?


Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> No,
> Absolutely not. The Incubator is a vital resource that can easily accomadote
> any language any project. If anything I would make the Incubator compulsory
> for ANY project. The reason for this is obvious; the Incubator works.
> Thanks.
>       GerardM
>
> 2009/2/25 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>
>
>   
>> Andrew Gray wrote:
>>     
>>> 2009/2/25 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> This is quite an interesting thought. The language used by Simple
>>> English is (apparently) derived from two defined "simplified versions"
>>> of English which were deliberately designed - have there been projects
>>> to do the same for, say, French or Spanish, or would we have to do the
>>> heavy lifting ourselves?
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> My attempt at a constructive contribution to this thread would
>> be to suggest that every Simple Wikipedia language, no matter
>> large or small, should start at a Simple Incubator. The incubator
>> seems a proven concept (it has delivered live babies, yes?).
>>
>> To me it seems a no-brainer that Simple Communities in every
>> language would only activate a sub-set of their languages
>> community, and this implies to me that as such the community
>> could do with bootstrapping in the fashion that incubators do.
>>
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
>>
>>
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