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Not saying they should, but as a PSA, if you’re anglophone and looking something up about a place in the non-Anglo world, it’s always worth switching to that ar
by Scoundreller 1y ago
Not saying they should, but as a PSA, if you’re anglophone and looking something up about a place in the non-Anglo world, it’s always worth switching to that area’s language and auto-translating. Even the images won’t be shared. Structure might be all different. Perspective may not be the same.
E.g. a city in France’s BRT system:
Contrast: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantes_Busway https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantes_Busway
With: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busway_de_Nantes https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busway_de_Nantes
- rcMgD2BwE72F 1y ago[dead]
- amiga386 1y agoHard agree. Some random examples where the Wikipedia page in the native language is much more detailed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Florence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Florence vs https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete_tranviaria_di_Firenze https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete_tranviaria_di_Firenze (and an entire second article for the historic system!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_D%C3%A9fense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_D%C3%A9fense vs https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Défense https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Défense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi vs https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministerium_f%C3%BCr_Staatssicherheit https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministerium_f%C3%BCr_Staatssic... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquest_of_the_Iberian_Peninsula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquest_of_the_Iberian... vs https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquista_omeya_de_Hispania https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquista_omeya_de_Hispania ... but https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%AA%D8%AD_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A_%D9%84%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%B3 https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%AA%D8%AD... is better than both of them Does anyone else have good examples? Or are there counter-examples, where enwiki has a better article than the native language wiki?
- kelvinjps10 1y agoI mean like using it for translating another existing article in another language sounds cool, but not that new articles in other languages are not getting written because it's easier to just translate the English version with AI. and what you said it's true, I think that Wikipedia should employ human translation as volunteers for those kind of articles