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Strife26

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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #15 on: May 07, 2009, 10:20:46 pm »
simple.wikipedia.com
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #16 on: May 08, 2009, 03:11:56 am »
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #17 on: May 08, 2009, 06:36:58 am »
Quote from: LegoLord 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.
Why would they read about DF, when the game is free and has a completely comprehensible site?
Using Wikipedia in general for things like this is obsolete.
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #18 on: May 08, 2009, 06:45:39 am »
The war section was horrible, I have to say.
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #19 on: May 08, 2009, 07:02:51 am »
Quote from: Yanlin on May 08, 2009, 03:11:56 am
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human

Seriously...

Oh wow really, lets see what all the fuss is about.

That article is reallly easy to read, people can understand it very well, er um no. Too obvious and that joke has already been made, aw.
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Quote from: NW_Kohaku on July 26, 2010, 12:20:43 pm
"OH NO! That carp is gulping at me menacingly, even though it cannot really threaten me from here on land!  I KNOW! I'll dodge into the water, where I'll be safe!"

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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #20 on: May 08, 2009, 08:52:23 am »
Let's see what happens when I simplewiki something extremely hard.

"You searched for Large hadron colider. If you cannot find what you are looking for here, try searching English Wikipedia, Simple English Wiktionary, or English Wiktionary."

...

Ok... Something else.

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics

"Forces of nature"... They're made out of scouts?

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_combustion_engine

I'm speechless...

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman

Man. This shit is still too complicated!

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer

Ok. Now I'm pissed.
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #21 on: May 08, 2009, 09:48:33 am »
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A Computer is a machine that does exactly what a person tells it to. A person uses a computer by telling it to do things
Yay for redundency!
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #22 on: May 08, 2009, 10:23:43 am »
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundancy

Guess one of the explanations fails on a regular basis.
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #23 on: May 08, 2009, 12:10:23 pm »
Quote from: Yanlin on May 08, 2009, 08:52:23 am
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman

Man. This shit is still too complicated!

I sincerely hope that in the unlikely event of alien invasion, they do their research through simple English wikipedia. In an attempt of diplomacy the alien hands a Venus symbol to Angela Merkel and asks her if she would like to have a baby or maybe vote as this appears to be what women enjoy.
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #24 on: May 08, 2009, 01:02:04 pm »
Quote from: Yanlin on May 08, 2009, 08:52:23 am
"You searched for Large hadron colider. If you cannot find what you are looking for here, try searching English Wikipedia, Simple English Wiktionary, or English Wiktionary."

You gotta spell collider right :(
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #25 on: May 08, 2009, 02:00:43 pm »
CURSES! Firefox told me Colider was correct! But now it says it isn't! FAH!!!!

Seriously. That should at least be a redirect page. What's the point of a simple wiki if it requires perfect spelling?

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

This is actually pretty good.
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #26 on: May 08, 2009, 03:57:27 pm »
Quote from: Yanlin on May 08, 2009, 02:00:43 pm
CURSES! Firefox told me Colider was correct! But now it says it isn't! FAH!!!!

Seriously. That should at least be a redirect page. What's the point of a simple wiki if it requires perfect spelling?

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

This is actually pretty good.

Eh, I guess so.

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complicated
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Quote from: NW_Kohaku on July 26, 2010, 12:20:43 pm
"OH NO! That carp is gulping at me menacingly, even though it cannot really threaten me from here on land!  I KNOW! I'll dodge into the water, where I'll be safe!"

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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #27 on: May 08, 2009, 05:55:02 pm »
Trying to describe complicated things using only simple terms is inherently flawed. Instead of something that's easy to read you end up with something more akin to assembly language. Like that quantum mechanics article there.
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #28 on: May 09, 2009, 02:09:55 am »
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Re: Simple Wikipedia and Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #29 on: May 09, 2009, 02:53:44 am »
Quote from: Yanlin on May 09, 2009, 02:09:55 am
I find this ironic.

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple
Quote from: Simple Wikipedia article on Simple
The English used in this article or section may not be easy for everybody to understand.
You can help Wikipedia by making this page or section simpler.
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