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Given that a large portion of the online community has some level of proficiency in English, what is the motivation for people to invest large amounts of time into translating wiki content?

Why is it that Wikipedia is the only wiki community that has a thriving multilingual community? --AlainDésilets

http://wikitravel.org is multilingual and doing pretty well - at least the French and English ones. -- SebPaquet

Bonjour Alain. My motivation to maintain a PageTranslation index is that I've not any proficiency to speak explicitely and clearly in English. As a small HoneyBee in the WikiNow, I find very useful to understand some pages here and reuse them to propagate some nice original content elsewhere in the bigger wiki-dom. A multilingual link-language appears to be very useful. For example, I just picked with FairUse some content from Sunir extracted on MeatballBoard to imagine the future of a BarCampBank board. Hope Sunir will not be offended ? Let's say otherwise, I would have been completely unable to find out any other clear terms. -- ChristopheDucamp


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