Bots, trusted
7,437
edits
m
→top: clean up, replaced: Wikipedia: → Bharatpedia:
WikiDwarfBOT (talk | contribs) m (→Other websites: Replace {{Source}} tag) |
WikiDwarfBOT (talk | contribs) m (→top: clean up, replaced: Wikipedia: → Bharatpedia:) |
||
| Line 24: | Line 24: | ||
Other people use the Simple English Wikipedia because the basic language helps them understand hard ideas or topics they do not know about. | Other people use the Simple English Wikipedia because the basic language helps them understand hard ideas or topics they do not know about. | ||
Many articles are shorter than the same articles in the English Wikipedia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aaai.org/Papers/Workshops/2008/WS-08-15/WS08-15-008.pdf |title=Automatic Vandalism Detection in | Many articles are shorter than the same articles in the English Wikipedia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aaai.org/Papers/Workshops/2008/WS-08-15/WS08-15-008.pdf |title=Automatic Vandalism Detection in Bharatpedia: Towards a Machine Learning Approach |author=Koen Smets|publisher=University of Antwerp |accessdate=2009-05-17}}</ref> Technical subjects use some terms that are not simple. Editors try to explain these terms in a simple way. This makes Simple English articles a good way to understand difficult articles from the ordinary English Wikipedia. If someone cannot understand an idea in complex English, they can read the Simple English article. | ||
When the Simple English Wikipedia started creation of pages and allowing changes in 2003, the [[:en:|ordinary English Wikipedia]] already had 150,000 articles. Seven other Wikipedias in other [[language]]s also had over 15,000 articles. Since the other Wikipedias already have so many articles, most Simple English articles take articles from other Wikipedias and make them simple; they are usually not new articles. Right now, the Simple English Wikipedia has {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles. Simple Wikipedia is now the 50th largest Wikipedia.<ref>[[metawiki:List of Wikipedias|Wikimedia list of Wikipedias and their statistics]] Retrieved 24 December 2020.</ref> | When the Simple English Wikipedia started creation of pages and allowing changes in 2003, the [[:en:|ordinary English Wikipedia]] already had 150,000 articles. Seven other Wikipedias in other [[language]]s also had over 15,000 articles. Since the other Wikipedias already have so many articles, most Simple English articles take articles from other Wikipedias and make them simple; they are usually not new articles. Right now, the Simple English Wikipedia has {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles. Simple Wikipedia is now the 50th largest Wikipedia.<ref>[[metawiki:List of Wikipedias|Wikimedia list of Wikipedias and their statistics]] Retrieved 24 December 2020.</ref> | ||