Talk:Simple English - Revision history

142.177.77.13 at 13:49, 10 October 2003

2003-10-10T13:49:05Z

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	What's with the old MediaWiki software? Is it for a particular reason or just not updated? Who'se in charge of admining the [[Simple English]] Wikipedia?		What's with the old MediaWiki software? Is it for a particular reason or just not updated? Who'se in charge of admining the [[Simple English]] Wikipedia?

			:They're waiting to be part of a more general upgrade. The old software will go away soon. To move over now would save no work, so they aren't going to bother. Next software upgrade on all the wikipedias, they're in on it. Until then, they're not. No problem.

			:A more important issue is a [[wikitext standard]] so that all wikis can swap files around without any rewriting.

Jukeboksi: What's with the old MediaWiki software?

2003-10-10T07:39:04Z

What's with the old MediaWiki software?

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	:Right, so if you have an issue with the definition of [[time horizon]] here, as you raised in [[talk:time horizon]], you must take it to [http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/time_horizon] - where a lot more people can and should argue with you over it - and only when you are satisfied that that definition is correct, should you fix the much shorter one here. This is a bit of a pain but it drastically reduces the risk of our relying on any unchecked or nonstandard definition of terms that will matter a ''lot'' when we are doing this in 40 languages....		:Right, so if you have an issue with the definition of [[time horizon]] here, as you raised in [[talk:time horizon]], you must take it to [http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/time_horizon] - where a lot more people can and should argue with you over it - and only when you are satisfied that that definition is correct, should you fix the much shorter one here. This is a bit of a pain but it drastically reduces the risk of our relying on any unchecked or nonstandard definition of terms that will matter a ''lot'' when we are doing this in 40 languages....

			What's with the old MediaWiki software? Is it for a particular reason or just not updated? Who'se in charge of admining the [[Simple English]] Wikipedia?

142.177.93.101 at 17:18, 9 October 2003

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	Seems reasonable. The English articles will make up the backbone of information to which all other language versions will be compared to so it is a sound policy to try to use language that can be understood bo as many people as possible [[User:Juxo\|Juxo]]		Seems reasonable. The English articles will make up the backbone of information to which all other language versions will be compared to so it is a sound policy to try to use language that can be understood bo as many people as possible [[User:Juxo\|Juxo]]

			:Right, so if you have an issue with the definition of [[time horizon]] here, as you raised in [[talk:time horizon]], you must take it to [http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/time_horizon] - where a lot more people can and should argue with you over it - and only when you are satisfied that that definition is correct, should you fix the much shorter one here. This is a bit of a pain but it drastically reduces the risk of our relying on any unchecked or nonstandard definition of terms that will matter a ''lot'' when we are doing this in 40 languages....

Jukeboksi: seems reasonable

2003-10-09T08:02:07Z

seems reasonable

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Seems reasonable. The English articles will make up the backbone of information to which all other language versions will be compared to so it is a sound policy to try to use language that can be understood bo as many people as possible [[User:Juxo|Juxo]]