At 09:59 +0200 3/4/06, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 4/2/06, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
My assertion remains the menu words do not have to be words in Simple English.
For example "portal" - is that meaning (of that word) in Simple English?
I'm not an expert on SE, but just to follow the logic of this conversation, "portal" would appear to be a specialised vocabulary word defined for the purpose of Wikipedia (as far as the SE universe goes). There's no good reason to define "recent" the same way, when it's only going to be used for that single page, "recent changes".
Surely all pages that show that set of navigation elements?
That said, either "New changes" or "Newest changes" seem quite reasonable to me.
Steve
"New changes" is fine.
So, "portal". Is that in "Simple English"? And is the modern meaning in Simple English?
What seems to be missing, as with much in Wikipedia, is semantic content. Links are created all over Wikipedia (Full English) which link on word meaning and ignore the context (meaning).
I looked in recent Featured Articles, and could not find a good example. Maybe these semantic blips are weeding out under a fuller review.
And people who write Simple English pages are creating some very strange English. Does this help the reader?
Gordo