WikiBhasha is a

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content creation application for the online

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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

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and

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were working closely with the Wikipedia user communities focusing on content creation in

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, Portuguese and

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. 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

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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

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, * Installable

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users) from th
WikiBhasha
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User guide

The WikiBhasha bet
user guide
provides instructions for installation and use.

References

External links

* Home o
WikiBhasha
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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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