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20 October 2010 ,
Written by Dhruv Tanwar
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Microsoft Research announced the beta version of WikiBhasha, a multilingual content creation tool for Wikipedia, that enables contributors to find content from other Wikipedia articles, translate it into other languages, and then either compose new articles or enhance existing articles in multilingual Wikipedias.
The name WikiBhasha derives from "wiki," denoting collaboration, and "bhasha," which means "language" in Hindi and Sanskrit. The tool supports content creation in over 30 languages. Microsoft said the beta version will enable easy content creation in non-English Wikipedias by drawing from the large volume of English Wikipedia content as the source of information.
Initially, the Wikimedia Foundation and Microsoft Research will work closely with Wikipedia user communities focusing on content creation in Arabic, German, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. |