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Hyena on Aug 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia is Losing Contributors

I do it on a regular basis, actually. What's surprising to me is that others don't seem to: I often come across articles in other languages which are dwarfed by their English companion. I'd think that someone would have bothered using Google Translate to guide a conversion of the page from English, but I guess I'd think wrong.

justincormack on Aug 4, 2011 | [–]

The styles for some of the languages seem quite different, had an issue with a translation from the French wikipedia being very informal in style, compared to English...

eru on Aug 4, 2011 | [–]

I often come across articles in the German Wikipedia that are translated from English. Not as often as would be beneficial, though.

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