Bilal/Osama - Thanks for your interest in WikiBhasha. I want to post a note to this comment as a response, and, I would encourage you to attend the workshop and have an open discussion with us as well.
We started the WikiBhasha as a collaborative platform for people to create multilingual data on Wikipedia, which can also symbiotically help computational linguistics community in research. This platform aims to make it easy for a language community to create content in their respective Wikipedias, leveraging the large English Wikipedia appropriately; we designed the system to help people create content in a target language Wikipedia, by helping them to discover appropriate content from English Wikipedia, translate and correct as appropriate, add new content, and shape their contribution to target Wikipedia. Also, there are provisions for sharing their translation knowledge with others. Large content in multilingual Wikipedia has obvious benefit for local language communities, and in addition, can benefit significantly the research community as well. All the data collected through Wikipedia, we plan to release freely as linguistics research resource, along with Wikimedia Foundation.
We had released the WikiBhasha as an open-source extension in MediaWiki (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiBhasha); we encourage developers to participate in making this tool better, and more usable by Wikipedians. Microsoft Research works extensively with research communities across the globe. We publish extensively the results of our research in the public domain for our peer community to use and to build on further. Just like the number of free tools that we have released for user communities (such as the Worldwide Telescope, Dryad and DryadLINQ), WikiBhasha is one more example of MSR's commitment to working openly with user communities.
Hope to meet you in the workshop.
A Kumaran PhD
Multilingual Systems Research
Microsoft Research India
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/kumarana
Hello Everyone
You may be aware of the tool - WikiBhasha Beta - that Microsoft Research has made available for Wikipedia. WikiBhasha is a multilingual content creation tool that has been contributed as open-source extension to MediaWiki, as well as a bookmarklet and a user script in Wikipedia. WikiBhasha focuses the user on creation of content in target language Wikipedia, either with content that is created fresh, or content sourced from the large English Wikipedia. I belong to Microsoft Research India - where WikiBhasha was conceptualized and most of the development took place.
WikiBhasha was announced on Wikimedia Foundation blog (http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/10/18/wikibhasha/) in October 2010, and the installable bookmarklet is available from the WikiBhasha home page www.wikibhasha.org<http://www.wikibhasha.org>. We welcome you to install it (it just involves adding a bookmark in your browser), and take it for a test drive. The user documents and a quick video tour are provided in the WikiBhasha home, with a set of discussion forums to discuss your experience. The link to the open sourced WikiBhasha code in MediaWiki is also available on this website.
We hope that you will find WikiBhasha useful in creating content on Arabic Wikipedia and in this respect we invite you for a workshop planned in 2 weeks. This will be a couple of hours of interaction between Wikipedians, Researchers, Developers and other people interested in growing content on Arabic Wikipedia. We will demo WikiBhasha to you and you are welcome to try it right there and give us feedback. Here are the workshop details:
Venue - Microsoft Innovation Center, Cairo (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/cmic/visit.aspx)
Date - Wednesday, 29-Dec-2010
Time - 7pm to 9pm
RSVP - Mohamed Nar (Microsoft Egypt), mnar(a)microsoft.com<mailto:mnar@microsoft.com>
We will be happy to host you at the workshop and your feedback and comments will help in improving the tool. Please do let Mohamed know if you would like to attend the program.
Sincerely,
Ashwani Sharma
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