User:Coppertwig
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Some people want to turn off (close down, stop) Simple English Wikiquote. You can say "support" if you want to turn it off, and "oppose" if you want Simple English Wikiquote to keep going. Log in to Meta and vote at: meta:Proposals for closing projects
I think the people who want to turn off Simple English Wikiquote don't have good ideas. They say "English quotes are English quotes". That's true, but they don't answer when I ask them if we should also take away the translations of Shakespeare into Italian and Spanish and other languages, or the translations of Aristotle into English, on other Wikiquote projects.
They say that if someone doesn't understand English, they should read a translation of a quote into their "own" language. What about people who read Simple English but who do not read any other language? (some Deaf people, some people with learning disabilities, some children, etc.) What about people who want to learn English and who do not want to read their own language while they are learning English? Some people may be happy with English--other-language dictionaries, and translations, but many people find it difficult to learn a language if they read their own language while they are trying to learn.
I've been translating quotes into Simple English. For example William Shakespeare.
I've contributed to Simple English Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, French Wikipedia and even Croatian (Hrvatski) Wikipedia.
On English Wikipedia, besides adding content including translations from French, I've also reverted some vandalism, added a bunch of redirects, and links between related pages, to help people find things faster.
I've also written many definitions for Simple English Wiktionary, as well as figuring out how to get (some) Babel boxes working there. (Easy; just copy Template:Babel over from English Wikipedia, but took me a while to figure that out.)
[change] Cascading protection
Administrators can put pages on this page: Wikiquote:Protected pages to stop people from creating those pages. --Coppertwig 13:29, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
[change] User subpages
User:Coppertwig/Test template User:Coppertwig/sandbox
- Wikiquote:Protected pages to try to stop pages like w/w/index.php from being created, by using cascading protection.
It's easy. You edit the page Mediawiki:Editsection and make it say "change". If you want to find other things like that to change, you can look at the page Special:Allmessages.
Simple English Wikiquote has 3 admins and 118 articles and 1,491 pages and 317 users.
