Sounds a lot like Simple English Wikipedia.
bibliomaniac15
--- On Fri, 4/3/09, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote: From: Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Jimbo interview To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Friday, April 3, 2009, 6:13 PM
David Gerard wrote:
http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/interview-with-wikipedia-founder-jimmy-wales/
A very nice and reflective interview, waxing philosophical.
The only regret I personally have about that one, is that Jimbo missed the one big opening at a knock-out punch vis a vis citizendium.
Citizendiums "narrative" and "engaging the reader" style does in fact sound good in theory, and it could work, if the people writing citizendium were actually good at narratives; but in fact they are not. Mostly it falls flat in a stupendously comic fashion. Witness for instance the citizendium article on imaginary numbers. The narrative voice there grates as if there was a Sunday school supervisor reading text to wee bairns and smiling every three words, to emphasize that we so love this stuff, ain't it cute and cuddly, these imaginary numbers, stuff and golly-winks.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
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