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
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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 < info@worlduniversityandschool.org> 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 vrandecic@gmail.com 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 andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 01:52, Denny Vrandečić vrandecic@gmail.com
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?
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