2020

Architecture for a multilingual Wikipedia

Vrandečić, Denny

Understand

Wikipedia's vision is a world in which everyone can share in the sum of all knowledge.

In its first two decades, this vision has been very unevenly achieved.
One of the largest hindrances is the sheer number of languages Wikipedia needs to cover in order to achieve that goal.
We argue that we need a new approach to tackle this problem more effectively, a multilingual Wikipedia where content can be shared between language editions.

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