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September 6

Why can't I see the older tweets of this twitter account?

According to Twitter, this account has more than a thousand tweets and yet his/her tweets from before today do not load for me. This seems to be the only twitter account where this is happening. --StellarHalo (talk) 04:05, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

Simplified topic pages needed

Many of Wikipedia's computer/technical pages are overly complicated and thus incomprehensible to most people. Wikipedia should offer a simplified/stripped down version of each topic/page. This simplified narrative would include only the most bare-bones concepts and explanation of the topic. Wikipedia may want to make the simplified page the default page for the topic, with a link for users wishing to view the more advanced/detailed page. I'd suggest that these "Simple View" pages not be open for public editing, with instead, having just Talk pages for discussion and voting on desired changes. 131.119.15.14 (talk) 15:31, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

Have you tried the simple English Wikipedia [1]?Dja1979 (talk) 17:19, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

The idea of the Simple English Wikipedia is not that the treatment of complex topics is made simpler, but solely that the language used is kept simple. Nevertheless, it is indeed the case that its articles tend to concentrate more on the essentials of the topics. The downside is that many more complicated topics are not dealt with at all. You'll search in vain for expositions on homological algebra or the angular momentum quantum numbers of baryons.  --Lambiam 19:35, 6 September 2022 (UTC)