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/e…
[2]:
https://osamak.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/google-translator-kit-at-wikipedia/
--Osama Khalid