> But what if we could ensure that everyone across the globe saw the same page? What if we could create one universal Wikipedia — one shared, authoritative volu

> But what if we could ensure that everyone across the globe saw the same page? What if we could create one universal Wikipedia — one shared, authoritative volume of pages that users from around the world could all read and edit in the language of their choice? > This would be a technological feat, but probably not an impossible one. Machine translation has been quickly improving in recent years and has become a part of everyday life in many non-English-speaking countries. Some Japanese users, rather than read the Japanese version of Wikipedia, choose to translate the English Wikipedia using Google Translate because they know the English version will be more comprehensive and less biased. As translation technology continues to improve, it’s possible to imagine people from all over the world will want to do the same. IIRC, Wikipedia used to have a machine translation utility, but they canned it because the results were so bad, and actually had a project to clean up the mess. I think the issue is that machine translation is usually pretty good, but also frequently introduces significant errors (e.g. missing or misapplying a negation, which totally inverts the meaning of a sentence).