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 <zblace(a)mi2.hr> 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
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