Three years, 10,000 articles, 80 translators. Today OKA published a candid reflection on what AI-assisted Wikipedia translation actually looks like in practice — written by our founder Jonathan Zimmermann The piece engages honestly with the community controversies around LLM use on Wikipedia, and with a bigger question underneath them: as AI systems increasingly rely on Wikipedia as live infrastructure, what happens to the human editorial community that makes it worth relying on in the first place? We think that question deserves more experimentation, not less — done openly, under community oversight, with accountability for what goes wrong. https://lnkd.in/e2bxGRJW
Open Knowledge Association (OKA)
Non-profit Organizations
St-Legier, Vaud 1,725 followers
Freely disseminating open content by providing grants to freelance translators and content writers
About us
We are a non-profit organization dedicated to improving Wikipedia and other open platforms. We do so by providing monthly stipends to full-time contributors and translators. We pragmatically prioritize work that generates the most impact. To maximize returns on our donors’ funds and decrease systematic bias, we hire content writers from countries underrepresented among Wikipedia editors. Our processes are public. Our work is transparent. Our freelancers have a high-level of autonomy. We are based in Switzerland and recognized as a tax-exempt organization with a public utility purpose. Wikipedia was mostly written by volunteers. But sometimes they need a bit of help.
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http://oka.wiki
External link for Open Knowledge Association (OKA)
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- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- St-Legier, Vaud
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2022
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Ch. de Chamoyron 1b
St-Legier, Vaud 1806, CH
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🎉 World Destubathon Result: 𝟰,𝟱𝟮𝟮 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀 Our global Wikipedia contest expanded 4,522 articles from June 16-July 13 - beating our European pilot results! Editors worldwide transformed stubs into comprehensive, well-sourced articles across topics and continents. Huge congratulations to all winners and contributors - you've made global knowledge more accessible! 🌍 Thank you to Wikimedia UK and our supporting chapters 🇿🇦🇺🇸🇦🇺 for their help. We're already considering our next target and planning another edition. Stay tuned! 🚀
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🌍 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆! Following 4,000 articles expanded in our European contest, OKA launches a global contest to expand as many of Wikipedia's 3+ million stubs as possible. 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭𝟲 - 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟭𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 $𝟯,𝟯𝟯𝟴 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲𝘀 (co-sponsored with Wikimedia UK 🇬🇧) Supported by: English-speaking chapters 🇿🇦🇺🇸🇦🇺 🏆 Up to $500 for top performers 🎯 Special prizes: STEM, Geography, Architecture, Women's bios & more Join the summer knowledge expansion! #Wikipedia #Destubathon #OKA https://lnkd.in/daHY44ub
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We're pleased to share that OKA was recently featured in a dedicated article by 24 heures (in French), covering the story of our creation and our founder in French-speaking Switzerland. Our mission remains focused on funding grants for full-time translators who expand knowledge access on Wikipedia across language barriers. https://lnkd.in/eAVSEyr7
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We just completed the first ever OKA-financed competition, which led to an amazing 4000 articles being expanded in just 1 month! 📚🌍 https://lnkd.in/ecQk5_5u Given that we've received overwhelmingly positive feedback, we're planning to run another one in the near future with a broader World scope! Thank you to all those who contributed to making this contest a success and all of you for supporting our mission 👏
