One of the advantages of this project is that the best of each Wikipedia can be used, allowing smaller Wikipedias to concentrate on topics of local interest and importance which are not in the other language wikipedias, and these can be used in the major wikipedias, expanding their diversity if they meet the inclusion criteria. Another advantage is that the structure of the articles can be engineered to be inherently more neutral. Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Denny Vrandecic Sent: 20 April 2020 17:23 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal towards a multilingual Wikipedia and a new Wikipedia project Thank you, Scott, this is a great and important question. I go into more detail about the changes to the incentives structures for the contributors in the Wikipedia @ 20 essay here: https://wikipedia20.pubpub.org/pub/vyf7ksah In short: it relies heavily on getting the user experience just right, and this will be one of the hardest parts of the project. But there are a few forces that conspire to improve the incentives for the contributors, such as more reach, making a current and complete Wikipedia in a smaller language editions seem feasible, reactivating previous contributors, and tailor a user experience for mobile devices. In the end, only the future will tell, but I certainly hope that this will lead to a vibrant and large community with thousands of contributors. Stay safe, Denny On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 4:54 PM Info WorldUniversity < [email protected]> wrote: > Denny, and Wikimedians, > > How to maintain the diversity of contributions, edits, individual knowledge > generators / writers, et al, on the human side of Wikipedia, by many > different language communities if these were to grow, I wonder? Is this > already part of your proposal, which I haven't come across yet? Thank you > for this great development! > > Cheers, > Scott > > > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 5:49 PM Denny Vrandečić <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Elevator pitch: > > > > Many Wikipedia language editions have large gaps in knowledge. We want to > > close these gaps by allowing to create and maintain content in one place > > and allow the Wikipedias to use this content if they choose so, instead > of > > doing that in each of the Wikipedia language editions individually. This > > will allow more people to access and create more knowledge in more > > languages in the Wikipedias. > > > > In order to do this, we need to represent the content in a way that can > be > > translated to many different natural languages with high fidelity. We do > > this by introducing a new project that allows to create, maintain, > > catalogue and evaluate functions as a new form of knowledge the > communities > > work on. This will allow completely new use cases, and allow more people > to > > share in more forms of knowledge than today. > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 2:48 PM Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 01:52, Denny Vrandečić <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > As some of you know, I have been working on the idea of a > multilingual > > > > Wikipedia for a few years now. > > > > > > What's the elevator pitch for this? > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Andy Mabbett > > > @pigsonthewing > > > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > New messages to: [email protected] > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > > -- > - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President > - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch > - World University and School > - http://worlduniversityandschool.org > - http://scottmacleod.com > > - CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric > CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in > California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
