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Can't we just all agree to speak English? No, I don't think that would be a good idea. Perhaps they could write a (albeit imperfect) tool to alert readers when

by galago 8y ago

Can't we just all agree to speak English? No, I don't think that would be a good idea. Perhaps they could write a (albeit imperfect) tool to alert readers when another language has a much larger or more comprehensive article. I'm sure the Wikipedians have considered the fact that some information is better presented in a particular language. For example, an article about Shakespeare will be more precise in English than Chinese. However, I think it would be another kind of loss if the Shakespeare article was just in English and we forced people to use automated translators. Some might argue that this applies to all scholarship, not just Wikipedia.

gammateam 8y ago
The current issue isnt about being presented better in a different language, its just that these are basically different websites and different crowd sourced encyclopedias I think your notification idea is good It could look at number of sections, clusters of contributor activity, and then weigh that by character length with different weightings for each language
jaddood 8y ago
Did you just forget Esperanto?
- Ma8ee 8y ago
  How so?
seszett 8y ago
As far as I remember (I can't check now) articles in foreign Wikipedias that have a "silver" or "gold" status are shown with a star in the list. It might not be obvious to English speaking visitors as I suppose they don't pay much attention to the list, but visitors who speak multiple languages often switch between them to get the most information.
- baud147258 8y ago
  > As far as I remember (I can't check now) articles in foreign Wikipedias that have a "silver" or "gold" status are shown with a star in the list. That's the case, at least when not on the mobile site; apparently the mobile site instead show the "best" version at the top of the list of versions, but I don't know how it is determined.
aasasd 8y ago
> Perhaps they could write a (albeit imperfect) tool to alert readers when another language has a much larger or more comprehensive article. There's a template saying “this article could be improved with translation from $other-language.”

by galago 8y ago

gammateam 8y ago

The current issue isnt about being presented better in a different language, its just that these are basically different websites and different crowd sourced encyclopedias I think your notification idea is good It could look at number of sections, clusters of contributor activity, and then weigh that by character length with different weightings for each language

jaddood 8y ago

Did you just forget Esperanto?

Ma8ee 8y ago
How so?

seszett 8y ago

As far as I remember (I can't check now) articles in foreign Wikipedias that have a "silver" or "gold" status are shown with a star in the list. It might not be obvious to English speaking visitors as I suppose they don't pay much attention to the list, but visitors who speak multiple languages often switch between them to get the most information.

baud147258 8y ago
> As far as I remember (I can't check now) articles in foreign Wikipedias that have a "silver" or "gold" status are shown with a star in the list. That's the case, at least when not on the mobile site; apparently the mobile site instead show the "best" version at the top of the list of versions, but I don't know how it is determined.

aasasd 8y ago

> Perhaps they could write a (albeit imperfect) tool to alert readers when another language has a much larger or more comprehensive article. There's a template saying “this article could be improved with translation from $other-language.”