Google and Wikipedia recently announced that they are aiming to translate more than 16 million words of Wikipedia content into ‘smaller languages’.

While Wikipedia already contains a wealth of information in English, German and French, languages such as Arabic, Hindi, Tamil, Swahili, Telugu and Gujarati are under-represented.

Google is aiming to rectify this - and further its aim of internationalising knowledge - by translating Wikipedia’s most read pages into these languages.

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