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Interlingual Wikipedia

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Referencing the concept of a machine sitting between languages w:Interlingual_machine_translation. Avoiding the name "Interlingua" since it was used for other specific attempts.

Votes

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  1. Proposed by User:99of9
  2. Support Support. Embodies the sprit for lexeme based translation. More specific alternative to Multilingual Wikipedia. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 05:28, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support Support It says what it is! Besides being more accurate than multi-, inter- suggests something beyond merely parallel texts.GrounderUK (talk) 09:53, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Support Support Hogü-456 (talk) 20:14, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Support Support Straightforward like "Multilingual Wikipedia" though I am concerned we already have Interlingua Wikipedia and Interlingue Wikipedia Harej (talk) 22:15, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Support Support Xeroctic (talk) 12:05, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Support Support Asked42 (talk) 14:09, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Oppose Oppose Not a linguistic project.--Snævar (talk) 15:38, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  9.  Weak oppose I like the concept, but the name is way to similar to interlingua and Interlingua Wikipedia. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by CristianCantoro (talk) 15:40, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Oppose Oppose --Prototyperspective (talk) 13:52, 21 October 2025 (UTC) (see discussion)[reply]
  11. Oppose Oppose --Waldyrious (talk) 22:17, 21 October 2025 (UTC) (see discussion)[reply]
  12. Oppose Oppose as the proposed utility is not useful at Wikipedia, also it is useful at sister wikis. Gryllida 11:42, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Oppose Oppose per above (it's not a Wikipedia). YoshiRulz (talk) 19:39, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Oppose Oppose per above (it's not a Wikipedia). --So9q (talk) 13:15, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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  • Oppose Oppose This approach won't work beyond a few sentences-long rather useless paragraph about some data points like population number of a city and even that which excessive difficulty and effort so I oppose Abstract Wikipedia claiming to the be the interlingual Wikipedia. If you're looking for making Wikipedia content available in search results to people worldwide searching in their own language, see Wikipedia Machine Translation Project. --Prototyperspective (talk) 13:52, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Oppose, firstly due to the "Wikipedia" in the name. This project should not be limited to encyclopedic articles; instead, it should enable (and encourage) the community to produce multilingual content of many kinds (for Wikivoyage, Wikiversity, Wikinews, Wikidata item descriptions, Meta page contents, Commons category descriptions, etc.).
    And secondly, due to the arguments mentioned by Harej and CristianCantoro above. --Waldyrious (talk) 22:17, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Interlingua" and "Interlingual" are too confusible with each other. * Pppery * it has begun 03:06, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]


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