• Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 hours ago

    I remember in the past few years that I’ve had to switch to non-American or non-British versions of Wikipedia just in order to find the answer I was looking for.

    We need to remind Americans and Britains that knowledge on Wikipedia doesn’t stop with their languages. We need to do a better job of gathering knowledge from non-English sources and translating those into English. Same goes vice versa for English sources and pages into languages that other people can understand.

    There’s still a lot of work to be done with Wikipedia to make it truly a universal knowledge repository. But it is one of the best we have