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Strife26

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Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« on: May 06, 2009, 05:43:44 pm »
Simple Wikipedia is a special subset of wikipedia which doesn't use big words. It tries to get information across without confusing the reader. However, it lacks a DF article.

I'd ask the community to help with me writing one, I have no wiki-fu, so I'm a bit lost.
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2009, 06:44:21 pm »
No.

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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2009, 07:04:31 pm »
Well, low-vocabulary or poor interpretation of complex language doesn't necessarily mean inability to learn how to play a complex game.
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2009, 07:23:18 pm »
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2009, 07:37:37 pm »
.I'm sure that there's a market for people who can just kinda speak english to play DF/
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2009, 11:05:46 pm »
Quote from: Strife26 on May 06, 2009, 07:37:37 pm
.I'm sure that there's a market for people who can just kinda speak english to play DF/

I think that is the main subset of simple wiki users. People who are not skilled in a language but are learning. Several news sites offer simple english articles.
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2009, 12:21:53 am »
Dwarf Fortress is a game in which the player controls a fortress of dwarves. There are also elves, goblins and cats. They must all be killed in horrendous fashion in order to gain the favor of Armok the god of blood.

How's that for a starter, despite being inaccurate in the latter parts?
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2009, 12:49:18 am »
Quote from: Okenido on May 06, 2009, 06:44:21 pm
No.

(Insert rude comment about how anyone who reads Simple Wikipedia couldn't even think about playing Dwarf Fortress.)
Simple Wikipedia is partially for people who are just not fluent in English.  It doesn't mean they're stupid, it usually just means that English isn't their first language.  (While, yes, there are Wikipedias for other languages, for languages that are not widespread the lack of users limits their growth.  The Simple English wikipedia helps people like that, whose primary language is not big enough to have a large wiki of its own.)
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2009, 06:29:50 am »
So why is does this need to be written again?
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2009, 08:10:47 am »
Quote from: Fishersalwaysdie on May 07, 2009, 06:29:50 am
So why is does this need to be written again?
For honor and wenches! Incidently, you can answer any "why?" question with that, so long as your audience doesn't include women.
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2009, 10:22:26 am »
We could also write a wikipedia page for all thousand some wikipedia languages, but I thought that this would be a better idea.
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #11 on: May 07, 2009, 01:49:58 pm »
Quote from: Strife26 on May 07, 2009, 10:22:26 am
We could also write a wikipedia page for all thousand some wikipedia languages, but I thought that this would be a better idea.
Or maybe... just maybe... we don't need either?
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #12 on: May 07, 2009, 03:23:21 pm »
Quote from: chaoticag on May 07, 2009, 08:10:47 am
Quote from: Fishersalwaysdie on May 07, 2009, 06:29:50 am
So why is does this need to be written again?
For honor and wenches! Incidently, you can answer any "why?" question with that, so long as your audience doesn't include women.

You don't hang out with the right women, clearly.

Anyway as a Wikipedia fan, I still don't think DF is notable.  :x
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #13 on: May 07, 2009, 04:19:05 pm »
It would make it easier for low-level-English speaking people to read about DF without too much effort.

That seems a just reason to me.
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Quote from: Vlynndar on April 02, 2009, 03:36:26 pm
"Oh look there is a dragon my clothes might burn let me take them off and only wear steel plate."
And this is how tinned food was invented.
Quote from: Vester on October 10, 2009, 10:10:11 pm
Alternately: The Brick Testament. It's a really fun look at what the bible would look like if interpreted literally. With Legos.
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #14 on: May 07, 2009, 06:45:55 pm »
What's simple wikipedia?



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