Dear Stuart,
The problem with notifying the article creators and templating the articles
is that the people who wrote that content are not necessarily the ones who
can rewrite it more clearly. And templating rarely solves problems, it
often just adds more clutter to a confused article.
Hoi,
Do realise that when this is the 'best practice' we will make the gap
between English and the others only bigger.. From my perspective to improve
quality, we could start with linking to Wikidata for blue, red and black
links in any Wikipedia. This will have a measurable quality effect of some
This has been discussed many times, see also:
https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Multi-level_Articles_(By_Difficulty)
https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Filter_content_based_on_desired_level_of_detail
https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Divide_Wikipedia
Hello Stuart,
No, I totally disagree. :-) I absolutely don't mean "plain English" but the
special concept as described in the article linked.
And I do not think that we need a software solution. We need good writing
skills.
Kind regards
Ziko
Am So., 10. Feb. 2019 um 03:02 Uhr schrieb Stuart A.
I believe that the English language term you are looking for is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_English and the problem is that
en.wiki policies already require plain english. The core of the issue
is that writing in plain english is hard and currently there are few
tools to support editors
Allow me to propose something different: Wikipedia needs better writing,
not technical solutions. And for different target groups, we need different
encyclopedias:
* for children
* for people with disabilities, such as
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leichte_Sprache
* for scholars, e.g. "Wikipedia
I am thinking maybe we could use subdomains for layperson, and for schools,
and maybe universities to have specialized [approved] content also ? Just
an idea given this possible mechanism.
On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 at 20:15, Aaron Gray wrote:
> Thank you please keep suggestions and pragmatics coming
Thank you please keep suggestions and pragmatics coming in !
I looked at this problem some time ago and the extra programming for what I
am proposing is quite minimal utilizing existing MediaWiki libraries and
adding extra code to support the tag structure with defaulting to make it
seamless to
I think we might be missing the point here of the original request. I am a
native fluent speaker of English and I have 4 university degrees. I don't need
Simple English Wikipedia, but there are definitiely articles on English
Wikipedia that I cannot read because they are not sufficiently
On the English language wikipedia the guidelines about ledes are
pretty clear and such articles are in breach of them. Please tag them
with {{lead rewrite}} when you find them. TW lets you do this via
javascript magic.
cheers
stuart
--
...let us be heard from red core to black sky
On Sat, 9
Well the purpose of the Simple English Wikipedia is to provide a resource
for children, people who are learning English, or others who have
difficulty understanding the regular English Wikipedia. It's understaffed
and underpopulated, but in principle it takes care of a lot of your problem
if
] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_project)
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of Aaron Gray
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Subject: [Wiki-research-l] User type context sensitivity
On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 at 01:01, Timothy Wood
wrote:
> This has been somewhat answered by the Simple English Wikipedia. But even
> Simple was recently nominated for deletion in whole on meta, although the
> nomination failed. I'm not sure it can be done without splitting off
> multiple projects, but
This has been somewhat answered by the Simple English Wikipedia. But even
Simple was recently nominated for deletion in whole on meta, although the
nomination failed. I'm not sure it can be done without splitting off
multiple projects, but the problem with that is that our cross-wiki vandals
are
I am suggesting WikiPedia has context-sensitive articles so if you are a
kid or a layperson or an expert in a field you get a different
introduction.
Often the reason people don't read or use WikiPedia is articles are too
complex at the start.
Having an adaptive setting that can be chosen but
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