Open Knowledge Association (OKA)

Description

Wikipedia relies entirely on volunteers to create and maintain its content. That often works well, but there are tasks that volunteers don’t enjoy doing, and topics where volunteers are missing. For example, articles in topics such as Science, technology, and Finance are lacking compared to topics such as History, Geography, and Humanities. Content from non-anglophone countries is underrepresented. Hundreds of thousands of high-quality articles are not translated. Additionally, while the English version contains ~7m articles, other languages such as Spanish and Portuguese, spoken by hundreds of millions, have less than a third of that amount, with an often much lower quality. There are thousands of such articles in our backlog that are waiting to be translated. With targeted funding, these opportunities can be addressed for high impact with very limited costs. With as little as $400, we can hire a full-time (40h per week) university-educated translator in Latin America.