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  • New page : lessons learned from MECILDI experience
    New page : lessons learned from MECILDI experience A new page will gather technical reports about web multilingualism. This new page completes the existing page Web Multilingualism reports which gathers studies made using the DataProvider.com database. This new page will stand on the MECILDI framework and its use in already some 50 different ccTLD or…
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  • Local languages in the web : a warning
    Local languages in the web : a warning OBDILCI has open a new chapter is to draw lessons from the MECILDI V1 experience, both in terms of results and implications for V2. A new page will be created to document the technical reports resulting from this analysis. The first technical report is titled “The Desert…
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  • How many languages does the Dominican web speak?
    How many languages does the Dominican web speak? The MECILDI V1.8 computational framework has been applied to the ccTLD .do of Dominican Republic. Check the multilingualism indicators and language distribution. The percentage of multilingual websites places the Dominican Republic well above the global average, and the number of languages per multilingual website is very high,…
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  • MECILDI V2 START
    MECILDI V2 START The second version of the MECILDI computational framework have started. MECILDI is a framework designed to measure multilingual indicators and language distribution of any series of websites. The version 1 is a simplified approach to get first approximation answers and was concluded in June 2026. MECILDI V1 was supported by DGLFLF and…
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  • PROJECT MECILDI V1 CONCLUDED
    PROJECT MECILDI V1 CONCLUDED Version 1.8, run#10, of MECILDI has been reached, with errors corrections, improvements in error management and for the last version a functional enhancement with the measurement for each languages for the percentages of sites having a linguistic version in that language (the sum of those percentages is equal t 100% multiplied…
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  • AN INTERESTING AI EXPERIMENT POST MECILDI
    AN INTERESTING AI EXPERIMENT POST MECILDI After the announcement of MECILDI and its preprint publication, OBDILCI conducted an experiment with eleven AI applications. Several objectives were drawn for that experiment: The results of that experiment are documented here with links to every specific conversation. There is a large level of convergence in the answers of…
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  • ASSISES DU PLURILINGUISME
    ASSISES DU PLURILINGUISME The pre-recorded version of OBDILCI’s presentation at the 7th European Conference on Multilingualism, May 22th 2026, in the session “Multilingualism and Societal and Cultural Challenges” – TB 10 – Multilingualism, a major issue for the Internet and AI, on the theme “Languages ​​and Multilingualism on the Internet: State of the Art and…
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  • PREPRINT ON MECILDI
    PREPRINT ON MECILDI Every thing you would like to know about the new OBDILCI program MECILDI to measure languages and multilingualism in any series of web site and its first outcomes is now documented in the following preprint in ResearchGate: MECILDI: computing languages and multilingualism indicators of any series of web sites with due attention…
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  • Study on multilingualism of gTLDs of France
    Study on multilingualism of gTLDs of France As second part of the project funded by DGLFLF, MECILDI was applied in the following geographic/linguistic gTLDs with the goal to collect indicators of multilingualism and language’s proportion:  .alsace, .bzh (Bretagne), .corsica, .eus (basque), .gp (Guadeloupe), .nc (Nouvelle Calédonie) and also .quebec and .paris. Some 20 different indicators were collected such as percentage of multilingual web, rate of multilingualism, average…
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  • The linguistic digital divide
    The linguistic digital divide The French-language Canadian journal Minorités linguistiques et société publishes in its Issue 23, 2024, dedicated to “Digital Technology and Linguistic Communities in Minority Settings: Roles, Impacts, and Challenges,” an open-access article by Virginie Hébert and Maria Bodron titled “The Linguistic Digital Divide: A Framing Analysis of the Literature on Language Inequalities…
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