Wikipedia Simple English
Does anyone else think the “Simple English” Wikipedia page is much harder to understand than the standard page? Not to mention just plain wrong in parts? Try to parse “The rule of all the Wikipedias, including this one, is that everything that is put onto the Wikipedias cannot be under copyright.” Does that mean that some of the items put into a Wikipedia can be copyrighted? Or how about “This is a difference license to GFDL”: exactly what language is that supposed to be? British Substandard, I think it’s called. Or try understanding “The changes you make are more than just making the words correct, so copyright is not kept” on the first pass. Sure, the “simple” version doesn’t use Latinate words such as “requirement”, “permission”, and “obligation”, but reducing something to clunky Anglo-Saxon doesn’t make it easy to understand, it just makes it clunky.
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