We do need, among other things, the sum of all Wikipedias. :) A shared commons, wikidata, global templates, abstract WP! are all ways to get there. The suggestions in this article are not...
In particular, as long as reliability and verifiability and research norms are siloed by language -- with the barrier of translation making it much more difficult to parse and evaluate claims made in a mutually incomprehensible language -- articles about a topic T in language X will depend on reliable secondary sources in that language about T. But we can move towards making this more possible, with - better on-wiki / inline translation options [G! Translate is a step in that direction, but only one] - better options for multilingual review and consensus [some languages and Meta have tried some versions of this in the past, so far w/o great success] - better translation-linkage tracking between articles: indicating which parts of article in one language are synched/branched from parts of the same article in another language. [there is research + practical literature on approaches to this in other media] - (many more...) On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 12:18 AM Željko Blaće <[email protected]> wrote: > ...considering recent discussions on Wikimania and here, this is maybe a > useful opinion piece from https:// > UNDARK.org/2021/08/12/wikipedia-has-a-language-problem-heres-how-to-fix-it/ > > It is packed with good insights and while I do not agree with all this, > the final sentence feels kind of brilliant: ... to achieve its stated > mission to “help everyone share in the sum of all knowledge,” they might > first need to create the sum of all Wikipedias. > > Best Z. Blace > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/HBJ35ZHVBYXRE3L7P6O4KHGC5TL4AS7L/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
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