WikiBhasha is a
multi-lingual content creation application for the online
encyclopedia
An encyclopedia (American English) or encyclopædia (British English) is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge either general or special to a particular field or discipline. Encyclopedias are divided into articles ...
Wikipedia.
Overview
WikiBhasha enables contributors to Wikipedia to find content from Wikipedia articles, translate it into other languages, and then either compose new articles or enhance existing articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia.
WikiBhasha: Translate And Edit Wikipedia Articles in Your Own Language
/ref> The tool acts as a simple and intuitive user interface layer that stays on the target language Wikipedia article that is being created or enhanced during the user-session. At the end of the session, all the additions or modifications of content are submitted to the target language Wikipedia in the updating process.
WikiBhasha supports content creation in more than 30 languages. It enables easy content creation in non-English Wikipedias by leveraging the large volume of English Wikipedia content as the source of information. Initially, the Wikimedia Foundation and Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research (MSR) is the research subsidiary of Microsoft. It was created in 1991 by Richard Rashid, Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold with the intent to advance state-of-the-art computing and solve difficult world problems through technologi ...
were working closely with the Wikipedia user communities focusing on content creation in Arabic, German, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. The word Bhasha means language in many North Indian languages, and is related to the word Bahasa of Malaysia and Indonesia.
The software is similar to the Google Translator Toolkit
Google Translator Toolkit was an online computer-assisted translation tool, computer-assisted translation Comparison of computer-assisted translation tools, tool (CAT)—a web application designed to permit translators to edit the translation ...
used to translate Wikipedia articles since 2008. The key difference between the two is that WikiBhasha runs as an overlay within the Wikipedia interface, while the Google toolkit runs elsewhere and requires a Google account.
Availability
As of 2010, WikiBhasha (Beta) was available as:
MediaWiki extension
under Apache License 2.0 and partly under GPL v2,
* Installable bookmarklet (and a Greasemonkey Script for Firefox users) from th
WikiBhasha
site.
User guide
The WikiBhasha bet
user guide
provides instructions for installation and use.
See also
* Machine translation
*Microsoft Translator
Microsoft Translator is a multilingual machine translation cloud service provided by Microsoft. Microsoft Translator is a part of Microsoft Cognitive Services and integrated across multiple consumer, developer, and enterprise products; including B ...
* Comparison of machine translation applications
References
Further reading
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External links
* Home o
WikiBhasha
an
MediaWiki extension page
* Home o
WikiBABEL Project site
* Microsoft Researc
announcement
on the release of WikiBhasha
* Wikimedia Foundatio
announcement
on WikiBhasha
WikiBhasha: Enhancing Multilingual Content in Wikipedia - Microsoft Research
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Multilingualism
Translation software
Wikipedia
Microsoft free software
Microsoft Research
Software using the Apache license