On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 06:37:16AM +0000, Ashwani Sharma wrote:
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:
Thanks for the invitation.
We're facing the Same issue that we faced when Google asked our the community for their help. Working with any giant corporation to improve free knowledge in Arabic can be good, but only if it didn't include what Richard Stallman calls "Ruinous Compromises"[0].
My take on this is exactly the one that I summarized on Google Groups[1] and on my blog[2].
[0]: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/compromise.html [1]: https://groups.google.com/group/health-speaks-arabic/browse_thread/thread/ef... [2]: https://osamak.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/google-translator-kit-at-wikipedia/
--Osama Khalid