[Foundation-l] Simple English Wikipedia on xkcd

[Ziko van Dijk]

For principal reasons, the establishing of "simple" Wikipedias is no longer
allowed. But maybe they could become a Wikimedia project tyipe of their own,
merged with the idea of a Wikipedia for juniors (Wikijunior). It is common
that big publishers provide also an encyclopedia for children and young
people, popular also with beginners in that peticular language.
Kind regards
Ziko


2009/3/8 Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com>

> I would like to encourage Simple English Wikipedia fans to blog about
> it ... particularly if you are non-English native speakers. The wiki
> is just not known. They might know their mother tongue Wikipedia and
> English one but not Simplewiki.
>
> Last year I just mentioned to the Simple English Wikipedia just as one
> of easy-reading materials for Second Language Acquisition. In a social
> bookmark service popular in Japan, perhaps related to my blog entry,
> Simplewiki yielded over 50 bookmarks just one day. And if I recall
> correctly, one of Simple English Wikipedia virtue is for non-natives
> education and convenience? Could we work more aggressively for our
> potential readership?
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Al Tally <majorly.wiki at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:09 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> http://xkcd.com/547/
> >>
> >>
> >> - d.
> >>
> >
> > Eh I'm sure this was discussed somewhere already... anyway, it brought a
> ton
> > of new editors in, which was both good and bad (we desperately need more
> > good editors, but not vandals!)
> >
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> > Alex
> > (User:Majorly)
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