[Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

[Chad]

I could be wrong, but I think you're misreading the point here. It's that
we should Incubate more Simples in more languages, not that we need
a Simple Incubator...

-Chad

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hoi,
> There is no room nor need for a simple Incubator. One suffices.
> Thanks.
>     GerardM
>
> 2009/2/25 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>
>
> > "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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