[WikiEN-l] Use of English

[Fastfission]

The most annoying thing about the "simple" interface (besides the
not-always-very-obvious menu titles) is that "pages i worked on" with
an uncapitalized "i" at the top of the page. Now I understand that
they are going for aesthetics here, but using an uncapitalized "i" for
the first-person pronoun is just wrong wrong wrong, whether for
aesthetic purposes or not. Either it should be capitalized or the
wording should be changed entirely.

My biggest problem with "simple" is that many of the articles I have
seen on there are just plain *incorrect* (i.e. one which listed
uranium as a "highly radioactive" element) -- I think it is very easy
for people to miss the fact that "simple" must still mean "correct" to
some degree, even if it is not necessarily as "precise" as an entry on
Wikipedia might be. I also fear that people who are not expert enough
to edit entries on Wikipedia are creating entries on simple without
consulting any sources than their own head (even consulting the
Wikipedia article would be better than that). I of course try to
correct it wherever I myself can, but I would encourage people to take
a look at the "simple" version of their favorite articles if one
exists and just make sure it has the basics right.

OK... I'm done ranting about this, got it out of my system. :-)

FF

On 4/2/06, NSLE (Wikipedia) <nsle.wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Besides, it's supposed to be simple. Unless you can think of something
> simpler?
>
> --NSLE
>
> On 4/2/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 4/2/06, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly at pobox.com> wrote:
> > > At 09:27 +0100 2/4/06, Gordon Joly wrote:
> > > >I have just "discovered" the "Simple English Wikipedia"
> > > >
> > > >http://simple.wikipedia.org/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >On the left, under "Navigation", I find
> > > >
> > > >>>   Newest changes
> > > >
> > > >I am very surprised to find this phrase here, since it is very poor
> > English!
> > > >
> > > >Gordo
> > > >
> > > >--
> > >
> > >
> > > In fact, all menus have been "munged" (**) into dialect of English!
> > >
> > >
> > > # My talk
> > > # My settings
> > > # My watched pages
> > > # Pages I worked on
> > > # Log out
> > >
> > > # Show any page (which is really "Random Page")
> > >
> > > Gordo
> > >
> > >
> > > **
> > >
> > > http://foldoc.org/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=munge
> > >
> > > --
> > > "Think Feynman"/////////
> > > http://pobox.com/~gordo/
> > > gordon.joly at pobox.com///
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> > New, Newer newest. What's wrong with that?
> >
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