Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-01-31/News from the WMF

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Interesting stats but I have noticed increasing emphasis on languages other than English in the recent WMF celebratations. While I fully support accessibility in as many languages as possible, I wonder how many of the 55 million articles in 300 languages have no equivalent in English? And what proportion of the 350 edits per minute are for languages other than English? That might provide more perspective.--Ipigott (talk) 18:59, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ISTR someone did a survey of that very phenomena in the last 6 months. However, I don't remember if it was covered in The Signpost or announced over at Wikidata. (Wikidata was involved since the results were based on a query of all items linked to an article, but excluding any item with an article on en.wikipedia.) -- llywrch (talk) 23:10, 2 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Also worth wondering how many of those are simply machine-translated verions of English articles, like the Cebuano ones. -Indy beetle (talk) 11:39, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I think that a desire for Wikipedia to be "trusted" is misled. The facts should speak for themselves; Wikipedia can contain incorrect information, as can anything. Our desire should be to ensure that Wikipedia contains as much accurate information as possible, and as little inaccurate information as possible. Such a thing does not require any trust. If trust is not required, it should not be asked for. DesertPipeline (talk) 13:03, 24 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]