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 eventually fleshed out in content and coverage.
Wikimedia projects are good at copy/pasting the software to make new projects, but we're not very good at significantly adapting radical new features of the exiting software, which is why we ended up with a Simple English Wikipedia as a stand alone project, rather than a tab in the existing English Wikipedia to switch to "simple mode". But we still have the problem of adequate volunteers, and lesser populated projects can struggle for years. The main problem with suggesting an "expert" version of an article is that we're very short on experts. The system is designed to compensate for that by requiring expert sources, meaning you don't need to be an expert to contribute; you just need to be competent enough to read and understand what the experts have written. I may be confusing things even further, and sorry if I am. V/r TJW/GMG On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 8:25 PM Aaron Gray <aaronngray.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 at 01:01, Timothy Wood <timothyjosephw...@gmail.com> > 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 the problem with that is that our cross-wiki > vandals > > are savvy to new sparsely populated projects, and they use those as a > place > > to roam, meaning you need significant community effort just to maintain > > whatever content contributions are to be had. > > > > This sounds crazy can you explain it properly as I dont contribute to > WikiPedia that much these days so am not really aware of whats going on > politics wise. > > I am suggesting basically a new (sub) section tags for introductions that > can contain :- > > a) A default introduction > b) The expert topic area. > c) Individually targetted introductions > > Thanks for the reply, > > Aaron > > > > > V/r > > TJW/GMG > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 7:15 PM Aaron Gray <aaronngray.li...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > 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 users as default > needs > > > facilitating by WikiMedia technology. > > > > > > Thoughts and ideas and possible implementation ideas on this idea are > > > welcomed. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Aaron > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Aaron Gray > > > > > > Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language > Researcher, > > > Information Theorist, and amateur computer scientist. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > > -- > Aaron Gray > > Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher, > Information Theorist, and amateur computer scientist. > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
