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(a)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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