[WikiEN-l] Duolingo and translating Wikipedia

[James Forrester]

On 20 June 2012 05:29, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 June 2012 13:22, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
>> One caveat that may be relevant to von Ahn's mention of Wikipedia:
>> "...in the case of French, they are from the French version of
>> Vikidia, a Wikipedia fork that’s basically a simple version of French
>> Wikipedia intended for 8–13 year old children. There’s also Vikidia
>> versions in Spanish and Italian. Sadly, Duolingo advertises these as
>> being “Wikipedia” tasks rather than Vikidia tasks. There’s nothing
>> wrong with translating non-Wikipedia articles, and it’s great that
>> there is a more school-focussed version of French and Spanish
>> Wikipedias, but it’s slightly deceptive to tell Duolingo users that
>> they are doing a Wikipedia task when they aren’t."
>
> That's interesting. Why is such a fork apparently sustainable in
> French, Italian and Spanish but not in English?

Because we run one already - Simple English?

J.
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