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@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@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/2/06, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
At 09:27 +0100 2/4/06, Gordon Joly wrote:
I have just "discovered" the "Simple English Wikipedia"
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
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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
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http://foldoc.org/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=munge
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New, Newer newest. What's wrong with that?
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