[Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

[Jon Harald Søby]

We are not, and you're misinterpreting Gerard's post; what he says is that
we do not allow any more simple projects; deciding over existing projects is
not something we do, and not something we even *want* to do.

2009/2/26 Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com>

> I didn't know the language committee was empowered to decide on whether or
> not Simples were made. I thought your job was to determine valid languages.
> I absolutely cannot support the continued existence of this body due to
> these unknown powers and will make my voice known the next time someone
> offers to can it.
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:19:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia
>
> 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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