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Internationalize your night
Sunday July 24th 2005, 9:58 pm
Filed under: %a la mod

Feeling mopey about speaking too few languages? Want to get a kick out of seeing translations of your favorite articles side-by-side, while feeling useful at the same time?

The Interwiki Link Checker is here to help. You can choose which pair of languages to browse, and be shown a stream of articles in different language Wikipedias with the same title. You then are asked to say whether they are the same article (this will create an interwiki link between them) or not. (Expert tip: you don’t need to be well versed in either language to do this; you can always select “I don’t know” if the similarity isn’t clear)

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