Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-01-31/Recent research

While we don't have and explicit anti-regionalism policy we do have MOS:COMMONALITY which encourages use of English that will be understood across the English speaking world. This might be called an anti-insularity 'policy'. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 20:13, 31 January 2024 (UTC).


 * As machina translation matures, the concept of language-independent Wikipedias (or websites) will become increasingly obsolete. More and more people are using machine translation for web content; I see it in my students (Korean and Chinese) who just machine translate everything (all websites, including Wikipedias). Some are then confused - "why there are different Wikipedias"? That's the sign of times. In a decade or two merging all projects will be a major issue, and predictably, it will take decades to implement, to the puzzlement and amusement of most users who increasingly will have default auto-translate feature running in their browsers. (Related to it, learning of languages will be incraesingly marginalized - and this is happening already; google for Korean or Chinese recent policies - i.e. cuts and reduction of incentives - for language learning). The writing is on the wall. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 01:17, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
 * As seen in Star Trek. Everybody has a little translator stuck in his ear and they all just speak and hear their own language. We expected it to arrive in two or three centuries. Of course it will be culturally a mess. Native speakers of English are approximately one culture, as is usual for a language, though our attitudes often magnify the little local differences. Jim.henderson (talk) 00:30, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

This was a hysterical read, considering the fact that Serbian Wikipedia absolutely did not escape a similar fate — IмSтevan  talk 16:31, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

The quote "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining administrator behavior" could more to the point be frased as; 'lack of accountability' Andrez1 (talk) 12:24, 5 February 2024 (UTC)