{"id":558,"date":"2009-03-09T07:51:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T12:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=558"},"modified":"2009-03-09T07:51:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T12:51:06","slug":"new-site-launched-today-againbutslowercom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"New site launched today: AgainButSlower.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\t.example {\n\t\tdisplay: inline;\n\t\tcolor: #900;\n\t}\n<\/style>\n<p>I launched a new site site this morning: <a href=\"http:\/\/againbutslower.com\">AgainButSlower.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/againbutslower.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/againbutslower.com\/oldman.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I saw this <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/547\/\">xkcd comic<\/a> recently, and it made me want to be able to see Wikipedia articles side-by-side with their &#8220;simple&#8221; counterparts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<i>Simple English Wikipedia<\/i> is a version of the Wikipedia encyclopedia, written in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simple_English_Wikipedia\">Simple English<\/a> and started in 2004.  The encyclopedia is supposed to be used by children, who might not understand the complicated articles in the English Wikipedia, and other people who are still learning English.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/againbutslower.com\">AgainButSlower.com<\/a> is a quick hack I put together that lets you view the articles side-by-side.  To do this, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/againbutslower.com\">the site<\/a> and type an article name in the search box (for example, <span class=\"example\">War<\/span>, or <span class=\"example\">Peace<\/span>, or <span class=\"example\">Chocolate<\/span>).  Or, paste the article&#8217;s URL directly from wikipedia (for example, <span class=\"example\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Time_Cube<\/span>).  Then click the &#8220;Again, but slower&#8221; button.  The site will try to load the original article and the simplified article side-by-side.  If it doesn&#8217;t find the simple version, try a different article, because not all of Wikipedia&#8217;s articles have been translated into simple versions.<\/p>\n<p>You can also try some examples by choosing one from the pulldown list on the page.  Or, try your luck with a random article by clicking the <b>Random<\/b>  button.  If you click the <b>full formatting<\/b> checkbox, the original formatting of the Wikipedia articles will be displayed (the site displays the printable stripped-down format by default).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I launched a new site site this morning: AgainButSlower.com. I saw this xkcd comic recently, and it made me want to be able to see Wikipedia articles side-by-side with their &#8220;simple&#8221; counterparts. &#8220;Simple English Wikipedia is a version of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=558\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26,35,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-projects","category-tech","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}