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Cross-Lingual Friendships in the Wikisphere: When Urdu Wikipedia Met the World Through Translations

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This blog revisits collaborations that began a decade ago, exploring how the questions they sought to answer remain relevant, resonant, and worth emulating today. Cross-Lingual Collaboration on Wikipedia: Urdu Wikipedia’s Engagement with Ukrainian, Hebrew, and Chinese Communities through English Wikipedia as a Translation Interface.  The above paper was orally presented at Maulana Azad National Urdu University during the Two-Day National Seminar on “Translation and Transformation: Exploring the Intersections of Language, Culture, and Society,” held on 25–26 March 2026.  The seminar was conceived as an academic platform to critically examine the evolving role of translation in an increasingly globalized and multilingual world.…

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