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[edit] Massive Simple English Phrase book

Do we have one? I have been trying to simplify many words, and putting them in an excel document. (Reminds me of 1984 Newspeak LOL)

[edit] The name for the Pump

As we do not yet have a village pump, I shall ask this here. What should the village pump be called? (In the English Wikipedia, the village pump is used for asking questions).

Village pump makes no sense in English, let alone simple English. A lot of other languages are using names based aound cafes. (Le Bistro, y caffi etc). Any thoughts on what to call it here?

Angela. 20 August, 03:16 BST

"Page where people speak back and forth about the simple Wikipedia" -Hehe. I dunno -- On Ar.Wiki (glad you joined, BTW - It was pretty lonely there..) I named it the "Community Oasis." Is "chat" a simple word? "Talk" would be the simplest, while discussion, and communication might follow after. "Simple Talk"? Easy chat? Some long words are actully simple, while others are complex - I think you're right that we should avoid dealing in metaphors as theyre an abstraction.

  • I wouldn't suggest talk and that will get confused with talk about the articles. How about "questions" or "ask a question"? Angela.
I personnaly liked the Market Place as a place to visit when we want, and shop for something like an answer. Ant
I would not call it questions because it is also for remarks, proposals, etc. Avoiding the usual metaphor, because a metaphor is not really simple, I like Simple talk; the only possible confusion is with Simple/Talk, when we have an article called Simple, but that is not so serious. Patrick.
Something straightforward: "Helps and concerns/worries/ideas/X".
The problem with metaphors like "Village Pump" is that it was adequately metaphorically to the creator and those around him at that time (i.e., villagers gather around the pump to whatnot), but to most other people now, it's just a too poetic metaphor. We wouldn't want our metaphor to end up that way. --Menchi, August 20, 2003
I like the suggestion of "simple talk" as it has a double meaning of both talk that is written in a simple language and it is talk about the simple English Wikipedia. Angela

I like it too.//我喜欢也是。 -Stevertigo

Why not stick with it then? Ain't broke: don't fix--BozMo|talk 11:49, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

      • If the "simple English" wikipedia is to live up to its "simple" name then a good name for a "village pump" would be "The place for talking it over", or the "Talking_it_over" page, simple, descriptive, easily grasped (although somewhat plain, of course, but along the lines of BASIC English). Jay B. ILVI

I don't have any idea about the village pump, may be an object or machine ? " sukor06 "

[edit] American/British?

Simple, American, British English

"Simple" is a difficult term: can one express complexity simply? In the UK we have the Plain English Campaign (see [1]) which seems to have similar aims to this section of the Wikipedia. Somewhere I read a (possibly inferred) claim that the difference between American and British English was only in spelling. This is not so: Use of English diverges in the two cultures significantly. Few people in England would name a serious discussion page a "village pump", so the term initially alienates UK-readers. This use of language example is one of many. The result could be a reduction in articulacy amongst contributors who felt they had to adapt their language use. --Marcoman 23:18, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject/(sub)Portal

Hi, i miss in the SimpleWikipedia the possibility to found a portal/project on a topic/area. Is this something only the "full" Wikipedias(these in "normal" languages) should have, or can we integrate it somehow in the SimpleWikipedia? I don't know how to realize it, but if this would be possible, I will found a project and/or portal for mathematics, but I would be happy if there were somebody, who knows more about maths, to help continuosly. Of course it would be good, if every big (or to-be-big) area will be found by somebody (or better more than one person) who will some sort of look after this area. sternchen14.July2005 ps: how can I get a signature with a link to my userpage without having to type it in?

[edit] Simple

I find writing in Simple is really a difficult task. But, I will do it for sure. --Bhadani 16:36, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No table of contents?

Why do neither of these pages have table of contents? I don't think they should be omitted. T. Moitie|Talk|Esperanza 02:30, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Intro

I thought the intro looked a bit unclean, so I've used the style from the English Wikipedia Village pump, I think it looks alright. What do you think? T. Moitie - Talk - Esperanza 20:59, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Running simple wiki

In order to be administrator here, you must be on big one, how to apply for this one? How often must one reply and be active on both wikis? — This unsigned comment was added by 66.99.1.23 (talk • contribs) .

You do not have to be an administrator (or even an editor) on the English Wikipedia to become one on Simple English. There are no rules on how often a person needs to post, how much they must post, or how long they have been posting for. Each person who applies for administrator is voted on by the other editors. Because each person has a different standard on how they vote, it is advisable to not bother to try for admin until you have at least around 1k edits, have been active here for 3 months, and have shown a good understanding of the guidelines and policies. Many people voting will not consider supporting the request unless the person has at least those qualifications (exceptions do happen though). To request to be an admin, see Wikipedia:Administrators and bureaucrats -- Creol(talk) 21:08, 2 April 2007 (UTC)