Dear MZMcBride, As you can see from *The Author's Farce* ( http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Author's_Farce), I work first by writing a standard page then simplify it. It is currently at the 11th grade level, which is actually below many Simple English DYK noms that I have simplified from other people before to allow them to proceed. It would be difficult to write a scholarly work straight into Simple English, but, as I have shown, it is easy to write it first in standard scholarly language them simplify.
I would like to ask more writers of quality content on the standard Wikipedia to simplify their material, after returning to the sources to make sure the simplifcation falls within the source material, so that Simple English will have more high quality pages. Sincerely, Jeffrey Peters aka Ottava Rima On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:25 PM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > Jeffrey Peters wrote: > > Both rewrites/expansions can be found on Simple Wikipedia, a project > > that is noble and deserves more involvement by the community as a > > whole: > > > > > > http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ottava_Rima/Ode:_Intimations_of_Immortalit > y > > > > http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ottava_Rima/Kubla_Khan > > Neither article appears to be written in Simple English (or whatever the > Simple English Wikipedia has contrived to mean "Simple English"). > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l