It's worth noting that Yumiko's article (now also on fastcompany.com) quotes the WMF as saying it "does *not often* get involved in issues related to the creation and maintenance of content on the site."
That "not often" actually indicates a little publicised but significant departure from past practice when the WMF would disclaim all responsibility for content -- a shift also borne out by the recently advertised "disinformation" hires who are specifically tasked with identifying misleading content, primarily, it seems, in "Hindi, Arabic, Farsi, Russian or Spanish".[1] As for machine translations, DeepL is in my experience far superior to Google Translate (though the latter does cover more languages at present). Andreas [1] https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/3383195 On Tuesday, August 17, 2021, Peter Southwood <[email protected]> wrote: > And it is based on a fundamental misconception of the legally mandated > role of the WMF. Everything based on this false premise, fails. > > Cheers, > > Peter > > > > *From:* Željko Blaće [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* 17 August 2021 06:18 > *To:* Wikimedia Mailing List > *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia issues in UNDARK.org #Opinion article > to check... > > > > ...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 > > > > > > > <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > > Virus-free. www.avg.com > <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > > >
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