Commons talk:Wikimedia Strategy 2017/Cycle 2/A Truly Global Movement

What else is important to add to this theme to make it stronger?

• It seems to me that there is an important connection between this theme and "The Augmented Age" theme, namely with regards to multi-language unification. Wikipedia has a large collection of articles on the same or similar topics in numerous languages. As the technology of machine translation and understanding progresses it may well be possible to automatically compare those articles and provide tools that would allow volunteers who do not share a common language to collaborate in developing a consensus interlingual article. That meta-article might then be translated into (ideally) all the world's active languages. In turn Wikipedia's corpus of similar articles in multiple languages might be a useful resource in developing the necessary computational tools. Volunteers editing in language X could have their edits be reflected in all other languages, perhaps with some interface mechanism to distinguish between improvements in wording specific to language X from factual corrections that should be propagated to other language versions. The wording corrections, in turn might be then inform the language transition tools. Machine translation of sources would also be important, allowing inter-language verifiability. The ultimate goal would be for everyone in the planet to have access to a common corpus of knowledge in a language they can understand. Of course there would be many difficulties besides the technological ones, for example, what is neutral to speakers of one language may be highly contentious to another group of speakers. But we face similar problems within single language Wikipedias now.--agr (talk) 15:10, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

• Thanks to agr's first point. Firstly, with many similarities, I also think it is quite useful to borrow multi-lingual approach and inter-translation approach from "The Augmented Age" theme, for

(1)identifying many similar articles (also some contents of projects) but from different languages, and (2)summarizing those relevant points into a comprehensive one, then (3) opening multiple-channels from core one to meet different commons' reading habits.

Here, I would like to point out another idea: I think linking our globalized movements with some governments or organizations' practical politics and strategies, or world's main tendencies of development can also make our jobs much easier and ourselves much stronger. Take an example, currently, we knew Belt & Road Initiative and Belt & Road forum were opened widely for many countries' discussions from Asia (East End), throughout West Asia & North Africa & Middle east to Europe (West End) (Wikipedia Introductions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Forum; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road). Many developing countries' infrastructures are under constructions, including internet, which demanded many supports from knowledge, information and education. If seeing the map, we will find many areas were underserved, which were included into our own developing plans and strategies. Therefore, I think we can attempt to take some 'high rails' like this one and contribute some peaceful Win-Win services of our own. You know, after many infrastructures are going to be constructed including internet, there must will be some opportunities for 'software's' in-set, supported by some fields of knowledge such as archaeology, histories, fine arts, education and advanced sciences, which our knowledge-bank, articles, projects, activities, researches, course-plans can give many supports. Oppositely, our endeavors can also make Silk road recover 'Golden brilliant' among many civilizations - let them know how they do will make their own 'Golden fashions' much beautiful and peaceful on our earth. It is just one possible example which would make this theme stronger (not so hard for our local volunteers, I thought). We can also think more. In conclusion, taking some 'high rails' supported by world's main developing tendencies and local demands would contribute to our theme's modification, perfection and practice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jason M. C., Han (talk • contribs) 16:54, 16 May 2017 (UTC)