[Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

[Gerard Meijssen]

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
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> foundation-l mailing list
> foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>