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Re:The second largest version of Wikipedia is written mostly... by StavrosK on Monday February 24, 2020 @05:27PM (#22409108)
How do you mean? I'm fine with the fact that the Greek Wikipedia doesn't contain an article about the Boston Tea Party, but I like that it contains an article about the 1821 rebellion. Requiring the information to be the same across languages would mean that either both should be translated, or, if no translator can be found, one should be deleted.

EDIT: Or do you mean contain the same information between different languages of a specific article?

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Re:The second largest version of Wikipedia is written mostly... by charwalker on Monday February 24, 2020 @06:21PM (#22409477)
I think they mean 2 articles in 2 languages with the same content, or as close as a translator can get. Very difficult to keep updated without automation but that seems like something they want to steer away from until no longer reliant on machine translations.
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Re:The second largest version of Wikipedia is written mostly... by waterside81 on Monday February 24, 2020 @06:16PM (#22409451)
Yeah they meant why does the Barack Obama article in English differ in content than the Swedish one
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Re:The second largest version of Wikipedia is written mostly... by wil421 on Monday February 24, 2020 @06:22PM (#22409483)
Why should something be deleted? If I was Greek studying the American Revolution it would be relevant. If there were French Wikipedia articles about cooking topics translated to English I’d be interested.
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