[Foundation-l] Please REJECT the latin wikinews project. inmediatly

Fri Jun 20 16:48:09 UTC 2008

2008/6/20 Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>:
> Dan Rosenthal wrote:
>> We have a Latin Wikipedia that is alive and well, and proceeding quite
>> nicely. Why would we reject the Latin Wikinews?
>>
> For that matter, what's so wrong about having a Simple English
> Wikinews?  The question of an ISO code may be a strong prima facie
> consideration, but it should not be an absolute rule.
>
> Assuming that there are enough interested people to keep it going, such
> a progress has a clear audience.  It would, for example, be very useful
> for English as a Second Language (ESL) classes where having contemporary
> texts in readable language would be a great stimulus to language
> development.

Agreed. A Simple English Wikinews would be really useful. Getting
internationally relevant news in every language is difficult, but
getting it in Simple English would be easy, and then a large number of
people can benefit from it.