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 peter.southwood@telkomsa.net 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:zblace@mi2.hr] *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
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