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Building a multilingual Wikipedia

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Seeking to develop a multilingual Wikipedia where content can be shared among language editions.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 64, Issue 4
April 2021
164 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/3458337
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Published: 22 March 2021
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