{"id":28735,"date":"2026-04-24T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/?p=28735"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:20:10","slug":"wikipedia-spreading-collective-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/en\/magazine\/wikipedia-spreading-collective-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia: spreading collective knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The world is constantly evolving, but information does not always move at the same pace. Wikipedia takes this need and makes it its strength: everything you need to know is just a click away. We talked to Pau Colominas, Wikipedian and one of the people in charge of social networks in the Catalan-language version of this encyclopaedia.<\/b><\/h3>\n

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In a world where everything advances at an accelerated pace, <\/span>keeping information up to date <\/b>is practically a luxury exclusive to social networks. With a filter of objectivity (to a greater or lesser extent) and under deontological codes, the media joins in to explain the daily events that happen everywhere. But where is all this information collected? Be it facts, people, concepts, or dates, the scope of information from the internet is so complex that it becomes diffuse and even unreliable.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a new episode of People, we talk to Pau Colominas about Wikipedia, a free encyclopaedia where many <\/span>volunteers collect and disseminate all kinds of content in our language<\/b>. Everything we would find in a printed encyclopaedia is there. With an important nuance: the information can be updated at any time. A milestone that can only be achieved thanks to digitalisation and the efforts of hundreds of Wikipedians who dedicate their time to disseminating knowledge in Catalan to the Catalan and international community.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Searches in Catalan and quality<\/b><\/h3>\n

Pau Colominas highlights a crucial fact: “<\/span>Catalan was the second language to upload content to the platform, after English<\/b>“. Since then, the creation of content in our language has been on the rise, reaching the 700,000 articles that we can currently find. The impact of our language on the platform is significant, and Colominas highlights, in particular, the quality of this content, which, he says, “is often superior to that of other languages”.<\/span><\/p>\n

The focus of the problem, however, remains when it comes to doing searches, and he points out that “<\/span>even native Catalans tend to search the internet in Spanish<\/b>“. Among the reasons, Colominas identifies the configuration of computers and search engines, and the imaginary of times gone by when the presence of Catalan on the internet was low and with lower quality content.<\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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