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)
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- 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.
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- BTW, fr Wikipedia has no corresponding message; I suppose that would be another option. - PhilipR 17:35, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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- 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