Hi Aaron. Earlier today I saw a tweet about Robert West's work growing Wikipedia across languages. His article highlights missing articles, but I was curious about disparities in content for different language versions of the "same" article.
I chose a topic: a country leader with a long history of corruption. The English language version covers it, but the Wikipedia for the country does not (despite being otherwise thorough). I checked out the page's history and, sure enough, contributions mentioning corruption allegations were being reverted as "biased".
How might the tools you work on support relatively small/new Wikipedia communities and in countries where the contributor ecosystem may not be as robust?
How can they help ensure that Wikipedia sites in all languages represent high quality information?
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Hi Aaron. Earlier today I saw a tweet about Robert West's work growing Wikipedia across languages. His article highlights missing articles, but I was curious about disparities in content for different language versions of the "same" article.
I chose a topic: a country leader with a long history of corruption. The English language version covers it, but the Wikipedia for the country does not (despite being otherwise thorough). I checked out the page's history and, sure enough, contributions mentioning corruption allegations were being reverted as "biased".
How might the tools you work on support relatively small/new Wikipedia communities and in countries where the contributor ecosystem may not be as robust?
How can they help ensure that Wikipedia sites in all languages represent high quality information?
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