I didn't know the language committee was empowered to decide on whether or not Simples were made. I thought your job was to determine valid languages. I absolutely cannot support the continued existence of this body due to these unknown powers and will make my voice known the next time someone offers to can it.
________________________________ From: Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:19:47 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia Hoi, Possibly. Now for some cold water. At this moment the policy is explicit. We do not accept any new Simple projects in any language. What I said was that it would be good when there are some good numbers that prove the value of a simple project. Once this is more clear, we may reconsider. Thanks, GerardM 2009/2/25 Chad <[email protected]> > I could be wrong, but I think you're misreading the point here. It's that > we should Incubate more Simples in more languages, not that we need > a Simple Incubator... > > -Chad > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Gerard Meijssen < > [email protected] > > wrote: > > > Hoi, > > There is no room nor need for a simple Incubator. One suffices. > > Thanks. > > GerardM > > > > 2009/2/25 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <[email protected]> > > > > > "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 <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > > > >> Andrew Gray wrote: > > > >> > > > >>> 2009/2/25 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>: > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>>> 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 > > > >> [email protected] > > > >> Unsubscribe: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > >> > > > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > foundation-l mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > foundation-l mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
