On 20 June 2012 05:29, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20 June 2012 13:22, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote: >> One caveat that may be relevant to von Ahn's mention of Wikipedia: >> "...in the case of French, they are from the French version of >> Vikidia, a Wikipedia fork that’s basically a simple version of French >> Wikipedia intended for 8–13 year old children. There’s also Vikidia >> versions in Spanish and Italian. Sadly, Duolingo advertises these as >> being “Wikipedia” tasks rather than Vikidia tasks. There’s nothing >> wrong with translating non-Wikipedia articles, and it’s great that >> there is a more school-focussed version of French and Spanish >> Wikipedias, but it’s slightly deceptive to tell Duolingo users that >> they are doing a Wikipedia task when they aren’t." > > That's interesting. Why is such a fork apparently sustainable in > French, Italian and Spanish but not in English?
Because we run one already - Simple English? J. -- James D. Forrester [email protected] [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal capacity) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
