Greetings, The tool looks promising. However, I wonder why Microsoft was investing in Wikipedia? Can we please know more about the motivation behind the project?
bilal -- Verily, with hardship comes ease. On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Osama Khalid <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ef20f0b601ab689d/f03bef67581d1cb1?lnk=gst#msg_64232bbeadbcab02 > [2]: > https://osamak.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/google-translator-kit-at-wikipedia/ > > --Osama Khalid > > _______________________________________________ > Wikiar-l mailing list > http://ar.wikipedia.org > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiar-l > _______________________________________________ Wikiar-l mailing list http://ar.wikipedia.org [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiar-l
