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(a)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(a)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(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk>
wrote:
On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 01:52, Denny Vrandečić
<vrandecic(a)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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@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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