Diversity in a Language-Independent Wiki: Six Design Requirements and Goals to Embed a Diversity Mindset.

Abstract Wikipedia is a Wikimedia Foundation project comprised of two repositories, one of functions and another of abstract content. Its goal is to collaboratively create functions that convert content from multiple Wikipedia language editions into an abstract language, allowing editors to maintain it, and feeding it back to each of these language editions so they can expand more rapidly and efficiently. In this paper, we argue that it is necessary to design the functions and user interfaces so that they encourage contributors to actively work on content diversity across Wikipedia language editions. Based on different Wikipedia studies on editing dynamics and content contextualisation, we suggest six design goals and requirements: topic identification, gap bridging, perspective modelling, items representation, article composition, and dispute visualization. Finally, we discuss the importance of helping smaller languages grow and fostering knowledge diversity through the exchange of existing contents.