Gordon Joly wrote:
At 09:59 +0200 3/4/06, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 4/2/06, Gordon Joly
<gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:
My assertion remains the menu words do not have
to be words in
Simple English.
For example "portal" - is that meaning (of that word) in Simple English?
I'm not an expert on SE, but just to follow the logic of this
conversation, "portal" would appear to be a specialised vocabulary
word defined for the purpose of Wikipedia (as far as the SE universe
goes). There's no good reason to define "recent" the same way, when
it's only going to be used for that single page, "recent changes".
Surely all pages that show that set of navigation elements?
That said, either "New changes" or
"Newest changes" seem quite
reasonable to me.
Steve
"New changes" is fine.
So, "portal". Is that in "Simple English"? And is the modern meaning
in Simple English?
Well, the word "portal" wrt. Wikipedia actually refers to a [[Web
portal]] - a very recent (oh wait, they don't know what /that/ means
either) - um, new - concept (do they know what that means?) - idea which
is very hard to make any more simple. Kind of like an axiom in mathematics.
What seems to be missing, as with much in Wikipedia,
is semantic
content. Links are created all over Wikipedia (Full English) which
link on word meaning and ignore the context (meaning).
You're always welcome to link to Wiktionary articles by prefixing the
link with wikt: - eg. [[wikt:verb]].
I looked in recent Featured Articles, and could not
find a good
example. Maybe these semantic blips are weeding out under a fuller
review.
And people who write Simple English pages are creating some very
strange English. Does this help the reader?
Thanks for your suggestion. Wikipedia is a wiki, which means that anyone
can edit...
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