Expanding the sum of all human knowledge: Wikipedia, translation and linguistic justice
Expanding the sum of all human knowledge: Wikipedia, translation and linguistic justice
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扩大人类所有知识的总和：维基百科、翻译和语言正义
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2017
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Julie McDonough Dolmaya
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Julie McDonough Dolmaya
维基媒体基金会可以说是社会责任组织的典范：非营利组织，致力于自由、多语言内容的增长、发展和发布，基金会运营着可公开编辑的项目，如维基百科，现在有280多种语言的100万到几百万篇文章。维基媒体--托管和运营维基百科的组织--似乎没有明确的翻译政策。因此，本文首先评估该组织的语言提案政策和维基百科的翻译指南。然后，利用维基百科最近开发的内容翻译工具的统计数据，以鼓励在各种语言版本中进行翻译，本文应用语言公正的概念来帮助确定未来的翻译政策如何在公平和效率之间实现更好的平衡，认为翻译政策可以是公平和高效的，同时仍然符合维基媒体基金会似乎认可的“官方多语言”模式。
ABSTRACT The Wikimedia Foundation is arguably the quintessential example of a socially responsible organisation: not-for-profit, dedicated to the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, the Foundation operates openly editable projects like Wikipedia, which now has anywhere from one to several million articles available in more than 280 languages. Wikimedia – the organisation that hosts and operates Wikipedia – does not appear to have an explicit translation policy. This paper therefore begins by assessing the organisation’s Language Proposal Policy and Wikipedia’s translation guidelines. Then, drawing on statistics from the Content Translation tool recently developed by Wikipedia to encourage translation within the various language versions, this paper applies the concept of linguistic justice to help determine how any future translation policies might achieve a better balance between fairness and efficiency, arguing that a translation policy can be both fair and efficient, while still conforming to the ‘official multilingualism’ model that seems to be endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation.