[Foundation-l] Fwd: Re: Projects in simple languages

[Ziko van Dijk]

Hello,
The case with Simple English WP is a little more complicated:
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Simple_English_Wikipedia
Basic English is only one standard they are looking at.
There should be also more consideration about the target group. If a
simple wikipedia meant to be a tool to learn the language?

Kind regards
Ziko



2011/6/20 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>:
> This was intended to be reply to the list.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Projects in simple languages
> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:12:16 +0100
> From: Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>
> To: Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>
>
> On 06/20/2011 08:55 PM, David Gerard wrote:
>> I have been around the Wikimedia projects since 2004. This is the very first time I have ever heard any official subset of English mentioned in any connection with the Simple English Wikipedia. Did I just miss past documentation to this effect? Was this part of its founding? When was Basic English first linked with Simple?
>
> Evidently from the beginning.
>
> http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_English_Wikipedia
>
> Simple English Wikipedia is a Wikipedia encyclopedia, written in basic
> English.[1]
>
> http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English
>
> Even in the earliest revision of the main page
> http://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=461 it
> refers to controlled vocabulary of 1000-2000 words.
>
> Ogden's Basic English was published in 1940. It's unlikely that those
> who asked for simple.wikipedia.org were unaware of it.
>
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
>
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