Hey Ashwani, Thank you for the invitation.I won't be able to attend but I will certainty check it and give you my feedback and suggestions for improvement, especially those related to RTL languages support.
Thank you for your efforts, hexacoder On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Mohamed Mostafa ouda <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello Ashwani > > I tried this tool and it is very useful . it really help me in some > articles > translations , but I wish it can translate another languages beside English > > > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Ashwani Sharma < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > 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), [email protected]<mailto: > > [email protected]> > > > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikiar-l mailing list > > http://ar.wikipedia.org > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiar-l > > > > > > -- > Mohamed Mostafa Ouda > _______________________________________________ > Wikiar-l mailing list > http://ar.wikipedia.org > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiar-l > -- Abdel Rahman Gamal http://ar.wikipedia.org, Share your knowledge _______________________________________________ Wikiar-l mailing list http://ar.wikipedia.org [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiar-l
