2016/02/28 1:16 "Michael Everson" everson@evertype.com:
Samuel,
Too many acronyms.
The simple snapshot was the most popular reading supplement for the
youngest OLPC users.
OLPC?
One Laptop per Children
It was the best resource on the web with a relatively uniform
low-complexity level. (Some of the ELI5 efforts are charming,
EL15?
Explain like I'm five
So: explicit tags with language complexity are needed.
What do you mean?
which mean Samuel think there should be a way to find Wikipedia article according to their difficulty/level, and/or it's needed to have different version of same article for different audience base on the degree of expertise they have on the language/subject.
Until we have the tools and social norms to support a variety of
different language standards (dialects, language level) on a single wiki,
That will never happen. en-simple.wikipedia editors work to a stylesheet.
en.wikipedia editors write as they wish.
I hope that lc-simple is now indeed valid.
LC?
language code
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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