[Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 17:59:33 UTC 2009


Hoi,
There is no room nor need for a simple Incubator. One suffices.
Thanks.
     GerardM

2009/2/25 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>

> "No,
> Absolutely not."
>
> Eh? "No, Absolutely not." to what precisely? You say incubator should be a
> phase for projects? I said simple should incubate for even larger
> languages. Where is the "No, Absolutely not." directed at?
>
>
> Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> > No,
> > Absolutely not. The Incubator is a vital resource that can easily
> accomadote
> > any language any project. If anything I would make the Incubator
> compulsory
> > for ANY project. The reason for this is obvious; the Incubator works.
> > Thanks.
> >       GerardM
> >
> > 2009/2/25 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>
> >
> >
> >> Andrew Gray wrote:
> >>
> >>> 2009/2/25 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> 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.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> This is quite an interesting thought. The language used by Simple
> >>> English is (apparently) derived from two defined "simplified versions"
> >>> of English which were deliberately designed - have there been projects
> >>> to do the same for, say, French or Spanish, or would we have to do the
> >>> heavy lifting ourselves?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> My attempt at a constructive contribution to this thread would
> >> be to suggest that every Simple Wikipedia language, no matter
> >> large or small, should start at a Simple Incubator. The incubator
> >> seems a proven concept (it has delivered live babies, yes?).
> >>
> >> To me it seems a no-brainer that Simple Communities in every
> >> language would only activate a sub-set of their languages
> >> community, and this implies to me that as such the community
> >> could do with bootstrapping in the fashion that incubators do.
> >>
> >>
> >> Yours,
> >>
> >> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
> >>
> >>
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