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The World According to Wikipedia

September 8th, 2006 · Comments

Note: This post is excerpted from the September issue of the Global By Design newsletter.
Earlier this year, we published the third edition of The Web Globalization Report Card, our annual benchmarking of many of the world’s leading corporate Web sites.

For 2006, we expanded our focus to include a number of government and non-profit Web sites, [...]

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How Wikipedia Manages Multilingual Content Expectations

June 22nd, 2006 · Comments

Wikipedia came in second in our 2006 Web Globalization Report Card for a number of reasons. Not only does it offer content in more than 100 languages, it does a good job of managing content expectations.
It does not hide how much content it offers in each language. In fact, it tells you upfront how many [...]

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Tags: Web Globalization · Wikipedia