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Translation Studies ISSN: 1478-1700 (Print) 1751-2921 (Online) Journal homepage: /loi/rtrs20 Revision history: Translation trends in Wikipedia Julie McDonough Dolmaya To cite this article: Julie McDonough Dolmaya (2015) Revision history: Translation trends in Wikipedia, Translation Studies, 8:1, 16-34, DOI: 10.10802014.943279 To link to this article: /10.10802014.943279 Published online: 30 Jul 2014. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 1633 View related articles View Crossmark data Full Terms Conditions of access and use can be found at /action/journalInformation?journalCode=rtrs20 Download by: [85] Date: 06 March 2016, At: 00:10 Translation Studies, 2015 Vol. 8, No. 1, 16–34, /10.10802014.943279 Revision history: Translation trends in Wikipedia Julie McDonough Dolmaya* School of Translation, York University (Glendon Campus), Toronto, Canada Wikipedia is a well-known example of a website with content developed entirely through crowdsourcing. It has over 4 million articles in English alone, and content in 284 other language versions. While the articles in the different versions are often written directly in the respective target-language, translations also take 6 place. Given that a previous study suggested that many of English Wikipedi