[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiBhasha Mediawiki extension
Hi all, Just read Microsoft India research team open sources WikiBhasha - http://goo.gl/sKlA . From the README file, I understand WikiBhasha is a media wiki extension aimed at enabling user communities in creating multilingual content in Wikipedia. Can someone who know more explain about this extension. Does any Indic wiki use this at the moment? Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Wikimeetup @ Chennai
It has been a long time since Wikicamp 2007 Chennai... Planning for a Wikipedia Wikimeetup @ Chennai , possibly next month. Need volunteers. If you are interested , please send a personal mail to me . Regards Tinu Cherian ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiBhasha Mediawiki extension
I looked into the architecture and the introduction. It seems to be the open source equivalent of Google Translator tool. It looks promising, because: 1. It's open source and hence bugs can be fixed directly instead of waiting for the company to fix. I speak from my experience of having to do a special cleanup of spurious red links generated by the Google tool (cf. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=603140aid=3017517group_id=93107). 2. It seems to have a collaborative translation module unlike the single-user Google alternative. 3. It's integrated into Mediawiki itself, which is a HUGE win. That said, I'll have to actually see that on a Mediawiki site in order to comment further. - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture From: Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Mon, October 18, 2010 11:57:59 AM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiBhasha Mediawiki extension Hi all, Just read Microsoft India research team open sources WikiBhasha -http://goo.gl/sKlA . From the README file, I understand WikiBhasha is a media wiki extension aimed at enabling user communities in creating multilingual content in Wikipedia. Can someone who know more explain about this extension. Does any Indic wiki use this at the moment? Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiBhasha Mediawiki extension
Hi guys, There is some more documentation for users[1] and developers[2] about this that was made available together with the extension code[3]. Microsoft Research is currently in the process of setting up community support. More on that hopefully later this week. One of the things to do will be to put all documentation on mediawiki.org instead of in the PDFs. Siebrand [1] http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/WikiBhasha/doc/WikiBhasha_Beta_Ext_User_Doc_1%200.pdf?view=co [2] http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/WikiBhasha/doc/WikiBhasha_Beta_Dev_Doc_1%200.pdf?view=co [3] http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/WikiBhasha/ From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of BalaSundaraRaman Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 10:32 AM To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiBhasha Mediawiki extension I looked into the architecture and the introduction. It seems to be the open source equivalent of Google Translator tool. It looks promising, because: 1. It's open source and hence bugs can be fixed directly instead of waiting for the company to fix. I speak from my experience of having to do a special cleanup of spurious red links generated by the Google tool (cf. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=603140aid=3017517group_id=93107 atid=603140aid=3017517group_id=93107). 2. It seems to have a collaborative translation module unlike the single-user Google alternative. 3. It's integrated into Mediawiki itself, which is a HUGE win. That said, I'll have to actually see that on a Mediawiki site in order to comment further. - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture _ From: Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Mon, October 18, 2010 11:57:59 AM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiBhasha Mediawiki extension Hi all, Just read Microsoft India research team open sources WikiBhasha -http://goo.gl/sKlA . From the README file, I understand WikiBhasha is a media wiki extension aimed at enabling user communities in creating multilingual content in Wikipedia. Can someone who know more explain about this extension. Does any Indic wiki use this at the moment? Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Academy session by Tech Marathi Pune
Dear all Wikipedia admirers, On coming Saturday,23 October 2010,5.30 PM ,Tech Marathi has arranged for a Wikipedia Academy session at Symbiosis Institute Of Comp. Studies Research(SICSR) Pune, अतुर सेंटर, गोखले क्रॉस रोड, मॉडेल कॉलनी, पुणे. Subject is benefits of Marathi Wikipedia to its users and how to use the same. Tech Marathi is a Pune based movement is dedicated to supporting technological aspects for the benefit of Marathi language. मराठी विकीपिडीयाचा वापर/फायदे प्रत्यक्ष मार्गदर्शन,(टेक मराठी सभेत) शनिवार २३,ऑक्टोबर २०१० , सायंकाळी ठिक ०५.३० स्थळ: Symbiosis Institute Of Comp. Studies Research(SICSR), अतुर सेंटर, गोखले क्रॉस रोड, मॉडेल कॉलनी, पुणे. गूगल मॅप सभेस कोण कोण येत आहे ? Thanks and Regards Mahitgar from Marathi WIkipedia ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l