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It is intended to be multilingual, ie. usable by people with a lot of different mother tongues. Wikipedia is a strong trademark - everybody I ever met knows what it is. This is a multilingual version (that anyone can read in a mother tongue given a minimum of infrastructure and effort).--So9q (talk) 18:11, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Votes

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  1. Proposed by User:So9q
  2. Oppose Oppose because it has Wikipedia in the name and the wiki is going to span multiple projects.--So9q (talk) 13:13, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support Support — Arlo Barnes (talk) 03:59, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Support Support -- Asked42 (talk) 06:52, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Support Support. This can work if we will be using mul.wikipedia.org as the URL of the Project. --Csisc (talk) 16:16, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Support Support. A straightforward name. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 05:27, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Support Support Plutus 💬 🎃 — Fortune favors the curious 09:46, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Support Support It's long and a lot of syllables but also a very direct explanation Harej (talk) 21:37, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Support Support Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 11:47, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Support Support Xeroctic (talk) 12:02, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Support Support DinhHuy2010 (talk) 13:46, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Support Support Nil Nandy (talk) 13:49, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Support Support CristianCantoro (talk) 14:33, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Support Support Of the proposals that have a chance of going through, this is the best. Demetrius Talpa (talk) 15:08, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Neutral Neutral Not a big fan of the lingual bit, but it is okay.--Snævar (talk) 15:31, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Support Support It communicates the most information. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 18:12, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Support Support Clear and plain denny (talk) 09:24, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  18. Support Support Simple and clear. Hakimi97 (talk) 12:15, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  19. Oppose Oppose will be misleading to many who expect it to be a full-grade/normal "Wikipedia" (+ "multilingual" is unclear & ambiguous). --Prototyperspective (talk) 13:39, 21 October 2025 (UTC) (see discussion)[reply]
  20. Support Support Name justifies the aim. --रोहितबातचीत 19:54, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  21.  Weak oppose --Waldyrious (talk) 22:26, 21 October 2025 (UTC) (see discussion)[reply]
  22. Oppose Oppose as the proposed utility is not useful at Wikipedia, also it is useful at sister wikis. --Gryllida 11:44, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  23. Oppose Oppose per above (it's not a Wikipedia). But of the "<something> Wikipedia" proposals, this is my favourite. YoshiRulz (talk) 19:39, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  24. Support Support sounds kinda bad but it's the last bad we have FaviFake (talk) 05:34, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  25. Oppose Oppose The project is not multilingual per se. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 21:59, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  26. Oppose Oppose --Namoroka (talk) 10:21, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  27. Support Support Layéniba (talk) 11:30, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  28. Support Support Shahadusadik (talk) 13:02, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  29. Support Support Emptyfear (talk) 18:46, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  30. Support Support Tiputini (talk) 13:44, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  31. Support Support As the least bad name. It is a Wikipedia/other project written in multiple languages. Goodlucksil (talk) 19:36, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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  • The only project in the Wikimediaverse that currently calls itself 'multilingual' is s:mul: (called sources in its Wikidata sitelink and mulws in some of the interwiki tables), which has some pages in multiple languages (mul) and some pages with nonlinguistic content (zxx) or content in an undetermined language (und) but mostly it has pages each in single, identified languages that are not currently served by their own Wikisource instance. Since it is most useful to keep source documents in their source language (although some translations are hosted on the Wikisources), presumably there wouldn't end up being a Abstract Wikisource which might get confused with the non-abstract one. Arlo Barnes (talk) 08:35, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • I like the name, but I feel like "Multilingual" comes off as "one Wikipedia that contains every single language". Unless I'm understanding wrong, this would not be a "replacement" for the different Wikipedias for other languages ItzSwirlz (talk) 14:17, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    This concerns me too. --99of9 (talk) 01:13, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Comment Just as a historical curiosity, this name was one of the earliest proposals back in 2020 for the new project (before it was decided that Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia would be two separate wikis) --Waldyrious (talk) 07:49, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Oppose As also mentioned above, 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. It will be misleading and confusing if people expect it to be a full-grade "Wikipedia" that is characterized only by being "multilingual". --Prototyperspective (talk) 13:39, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Weak oppose 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.). I would suggest the proposer and supporters to consider the more generic name "Multilingual Wiki" instead (though that would perhaps be too generic).
    That said, I do want to acknowledge that the points mentioned by Csisc and Arlo Barnes are indeed compelling. --Waldyrious (talk) 22:26, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Oppose ce n'est pas une encyclopédie Wikipédia ce sont des bribes de texte générées automatiquement à partir de quelques données de base. --NemesisIII (talk) 09:20, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]


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