[Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 18:19:47 UTC 2009


Hoi,
Possibly.
Now for some cold water. At this moment the policy is explicit. We do not
accept any new Simple projects in any language. What I said was that it
would be good when there are some good numbers that prove the value of a
simple project. Once this is more clear, we may reconsider.
Thanks,
         GerardM

2009/2/25 Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com>

> 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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