MediaWiki talk:Tagline

From Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia written in simple English for easy reading.

[edit] From Wikipedia, ...

I don't know if this has been discussed before as I'm new to this Wikipedia. The text below every article title reads "From Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia written in simple English for easy reading.", which, if I didn't know WP already, would make me think it's a free encyclopedia written in simple English for easy reading. Shouldn't it be "From Simple English Wikipedia, ..." instead? Pilaf 00:14, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Does the French Wikipedia say the equivalent of "From the French Wikipedia..."? The only reason the tagline is any different from the "normal English" Wikipedia is to make a clear distinction, otherwise the sites look too similar. -- Netoholic @ 06:58, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I'm with Pilaf. Much better would be From Simple English Wikipedia, .... Other languages, in my opinion, are not 100% relevant because they don't have any "namespace collision" to worry about. In other words, if a Spanish speaker says, "I saw an article in Wikipedia," the default assumption would be that she's talking about the Spanish-language version. No such presumption exists when a "Simple English" speaker mentions WP. Therefore it seems to me that SE WP needs to be "branded" separately from English Wikipedia, and Pilaf's version suggestion for that message seems appropriate.
BTW, fr Wikipedia has no corresponding message; I suppose that would be another option. - PhilipR 17:35, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I know this has led to confusion in the past. I remember a crtiticism article on Wikipedia which went on about how poorly written articles were, when in fact the journalist had been reading Simple English articles all along. I think changing the tagline would help clarify this kind of confusions. Pilaf 01:47, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Um, how about if it said "From the Wikipedia project, a free encyclopedia written in simple English for easy reading."? Somehow I think that was what was meant by "From Wikipedia,..."
But that does start to seem like we're packing a lot into a short message, and might require disambiguation by restating as "A free encyclopedia written in simple English for easy reading, from the Wikipedia project."

I wouldn't be opposed to "From Simple English Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia written for easy reading." -- Netoholic @ 16:45, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Then why don't we do it? The 's' in simple needs to be uppercase, it's been bugging me for ages Archer7