Entries by Elio Esposito

Wikipedia has a Google Translate problem

Smaller editions badly need a machine translation tool — but it isn’t good enough to use on its own Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Wikipedia was founded with the aim of making knowledge freely available around the world — but right now, it’s mostly making it available in English. The English Wikipedia is […]

Coding Is for Everyone—as Long as You Speak English

  Code depends on English—for reasons that are entirely unnecessary at a technical level. GETTY IMAGES This year marks the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, so there’s been a lot of pixels spilled on “the initial promises of the web”—one of which was the idea that you could select “view source” on any […]