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Presentation Framework

Multilingual Wikipedia is a unified system...

 * 1) User-generated multilingual system
 * 2) Constructed through the interactions between different social groups in relation to the system
 * 3) Socio-technical system used in a global context
 * Insert the diagram
 * General statistics of numbers of languages, articles etc...

Values (3-4 mins)
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 * 1) Definitional Values
 * 2) *Definition From Encyclopedia
 * 3) *Definition From Wikipedia page
 * 4) *Policies
 * 5) Emerging Values(p.1719)
 * 6) *Build own community --- autonomy, independence, cultural diversity (Blackboard)
 * 7) *Transparency
 * 8) *Informed Consent
 * 9) *Cooperation
 * 10) *Universal Usability (eg. Ease-of-use in cross-lingual references/editing)
 * 11) *Trust

Technology

 * Wiki (platform) --- collaboration among users
 * Translation and Interlingual Mechanism
 * Multilingual coordination projects: 'Babel', 'Babylon'
 * Interlingual Links
 * Templates --- used by translators
 * Translator
 * 'Embassy' --- provides the lists of translators
 * Via Machine: names???

Constituencies --- need to be added more...

 * Users
 * Chinese language users
 * Japanese language users
 * General users: users of the English version


 * Designer
 * Founder

Reality of Differences:Policies

 * Policies and Guidelines
 * Five Pillars
 * Translation Policies


 * Conflicts/Contradictions --- differences in value basis
 * consensus
 * privacy
 * copyright

Reality of Differences:Cultural

 * 'Most Visited Articles' Statistics --- what constituted "knowledge" in each version?

Article Comparison

 * Atom Bomb(numbers of pages, compare to the local encyclopedia, compare to english version)
 * English Version
 * Chinese Version
 * Japanese Version


 * Ai Iijima --- issues of the norm of 'harmful' for the minor, 'trivial' information, who uses the system (Wikipedia vs Baidu Baike)?
 * English Version
 * Chinese Version
 * Japanese Version

Conceptual Dis-Integraty

 * cultural diversity
 * universality of knowledge

GOAL

 * to promote cultural diversity,
 * yet to maintain policy integrity within the system
 * Resolving: Increase in cross-lingual communication will help reaching the neutral point of view for Wikipedia as a whole, in other words, inter-lingual expanding the discursive contents generation beyond the current intra-lingual communication.
 * Operationalization
 * Improvement of the visibility of cross-lingual connections

Verification

 * Researcher’s own experiences as users by comparing Wikipedia contents cross-lingual
 * Identification of the cross-lingual differences in standards of contents and policy interpretations
 * Urge for the common goal and standard for the cross-lingual production of knowledge that is inclusive and considerate of the differences


 * Feedback from the community
 * Proposal to the Wikipedia → we’ll see how it goes…

Configurable Interlingual Links (PIC)

 * 1) *Make the current links configurable according to the likings of the users
 * 2) *Configurable ranking system for the ‘interlingual link box’ --- Reduces the hierarchical bias based on the current alphabetical language labeling and ranking system (Eg. Despite the number of users, Chinese is usually at the bottom because it is labeled as ‘zh’.)
 * 3) *Configurable location for the ‘interlingual link box’ --- Increase the choice of users where to locate the box based on the significance of cross-lingual differences and the need of cross-lingual understandings and exchange of perspectives.

Making ‘Embassy more visible

 * Create a tab for ‘Embassy’ attachable to the topics that shows significant cross-lingual differences in perspectives

Conclusion: Value and Design

 * Foundational values/Globally common principles:Definitional and Designer
 * Emerging and User Values/principles specific to Multilingual Wikipedia: Cultural Diversity and Ease-of-Use for interlingual connections
 * Existing technical efforts for cross-lingual connection and empirical evidences of cross-lingual differences
 * Improvement in visibility of inter-lingual links: Proposal for Design Change
 * Configurable ranking system for the ‘interlingual link box’
 * Configurable location for the ‘interlingual link box’
 * Create a tab for ‘Embassy’


 * Conflicting Values: diversity and universality → resolve by improving cross-lingual connection
 * Verified through researcher’s own experiences

We do this on our Presentation

 * Describe the whole system of Multilingual Wikipedia
 * How the different language versions connect each other?
 * How communities with different culture norms work collaboratively and connectively?


 * The Values
 * The same value: building and sharing the universal knowledge with everyone on this planet.
 * The diverse cultural and social norms various communities hold.
 * The contradiction between this single ideal and plural cultural realities.


 * How this contradiction had been represented through the system
 * The same attitude toward translation
 * Different attitudes toward the official policy.

Translation

 * The policy/guideline of translation.
 * What is the same with English Wikipedia.
 * What is the differences.
 * They make use of templates to label articles.
 * They list tools people could use to translate.


 * The discussion on wikipedia translating/translator.
 * The statistics
 * How many numbers of translators
 * How many articles they translated
 * How

Official Policies

 * The discussion on new policy implementing.
 * Their debate on policy.
 * The translation of "Five Pillars"
 * The numbers of webpages of Official policies
 * How many pages on "Policies" discussion page.

Features

 * They have the most complete records on government crackdown.
 * The difficulties of Taiwan vs. Mainland.
 * The technical difficulties on Traditional and Simplified Characters.
 * The attitudes with Chinese government and blabla.