barriers
to contribution in some fields.
Cheers,
Peter
From: Yaroslav Blanter [mailto:ymb...@gmail.com]
Sent: 09 June 2022 09:05
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Research Showcase June 15
Hi Peter,
from my (admittedly from more than ten years ago
Hi Peter,
from my (admittedly from more than ten years ago) experience with the
Russian Wikipedia, articles are often translated from other language
Wikipedias, with references just taken over and not being independently
checked (perhaps it is checked that an online reference is still available,
Interesting research. Maybe I just missed it, but I didn’t notice any
discussion of relation of availability of reliable sources to coverage in
different languages. In English Wikipedia we are not allowed to write about
topics which are not covered by suitable sources, but there may also be
