[Foundation-l] Simple English Wikipedia on xkcd

[‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮Mark Williamson]

As much as I appreciate the potential usefulness of Simple, I think it
would work better if there were more strict guidelines on language
usage instead of people arbitrarily "dumbing down" articles to fit
their own ideas of what is simple.

2009/3/7 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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