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Hum, sure. I would add too that all Wikipedia projects are still related to each other, with the English one being at the center of the graph. A lot of article

Hum, sure. I would add too that all Wikipedia projects are still related to each other, with the English one being at the center of the graph. A lot of articles in the French Wikipedia use translated paragraphs from the English one, and I would think it is a similar story for the other Wikipedias, although I don't speak any other languages well enough to verify that. Similarly, I would think English Wikipedia benefits from articles or bits of articles ported to it from other languages. All that to say, Wikipedia is more connected that you may think.

AStonesThrow 1y ago
> Wikipedia is more connected that you may think. Actually I wrote this same idea 17 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036737 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036737 So I don't know what you think I think, but I already said this is so. Nobody has said any different. The independent governance of the projects is nevertheless a fact, though; they all make independent decisions in terms of content retention as we are discussing in this thread. All the editors who "port" or translate bits of articles are operating independently, and there is actually no way to logically link the material using wikicode; if the text is edited in one place, then its content will diverge from every other place it appears. In other words, the projects are independent from one another, despite "cross-pollination", translation, or "porting" of text from one to another.