Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Wikipedia on xkcd

2009-03-08 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/8 Aphaia aph...@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. I find it

Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Wikipedia on xkcd

2009-03-08 Thread David Goodman
There has been considerable argument here has been that it ought to be allowed. Speaking for myself, there are two I think I might be able to mange to work in , though i wouldn't attempt to write anything substantial for the regular versions. English speakers need encouragement not to be

[Foundation-l] Simple English Wikipedia on xkcd

2009-02-24 Thread David Gerard
http://xkcd.com/547/ - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Wikipedia on xkcd

2009-02-24 Thread Samuel Klein
We should all try the xkcd cure for a while : stick to short words on this list for a week and see where it gets us. (kat, is this curt's law? what sorts of threads are star-crossed to end this way?)SJ. On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:09 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Wikipedia on xkcd

2009-02-24 Thread Florence Devouard
David Gerard wrote: http://xkcd.com/547/ - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l Love it ! ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Wikipedia on xkcd

2009-02-24 Thread Dan Rosenthal
On Feb 24, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Al Tally wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:09 PM, David Gerard dger...@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

Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Wikipedia on xkcd

2009-02-24 Thread David Goodman
since that is the most recent xkcd, you may be thinking of the recent http://xkcd.com/545/ Neutrality Schmeutrality or http://xkcd.com/214/ The Problem with Wikipedia or http://xkcd.com/446/ in Popular Culture not to mention the classic http://xkcd.com/285/ Wikipedian protestor On Tue, Feb