[Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

Pharos pharosofalexandria at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 02:51:48 UTC 2009


On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> When the use case of the Simple Wikipedia is better understood, it may even
> make room for more simple projects as in simple projects in the biggest
> languages.
> Thanks.,
>      GerardM

If anyone is interested, I believe the other language most suited to
such a project would be French, because of its lingua franca status in
large parts of the developing world.

Thanks,
Pharos

> 2009/2/25 Cary Bass <cary at wikimedia.org>
>
>> Ray Saintonge wrote:
>> > Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
>> >> However my central point that a discussion of something as important as
>> >> closing one of our most important projects in a way that few know about
>> >> it remains. The !vote is 42:102. We get more at en:WP on a RFA.
>> >
>> > A further argument against having this principally discussed on Meta is
>> > that those who are best served by Simple do not have the language skills
>> > to participate fully in a discussion where there is unlimited use of
>> > language.
>> >
>> > Ec
>>
>> In light of that, I understand that there is some kind of simple
>> wikipedia usage among the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) distribution.
>> Perhaps someone could clarify, but if this is the case, then that would
>> make the likelihood that this already failing proposal would pass even
>> more remote.
>>
>> Cary Bass
>>
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