WikiBhasha

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WikiBhasha

A sample instance of WikiBhasha.
Original author(s)	Microsoft Research
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Initial release	October 18, 2010; 14 years ago (2010-10-18)[1]
Stable release	1.0.1 / October 25, 2010; 14 years ago (2010-10-25)
Repository	phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/SVN/browse/trunk/extensions/WikiBhasha/
Written in	JavaScript, PHP
Operating system	Microsoft Windows, Linux
License	Apache License 2.0 and partly GPL v2
Website	www.wikibhasha.org

WikiBhasha is a multi-lingual content creation application for the online encyclopedia Wik.ipedia.Pro.

WikiBhasha enables contributors to Wik.ipedia.Pro to find content from Wik.ipedia.Pro articles, translate it into other languages, and then either compose new articles or enhance existing articles in the various language versions of Wik.ipedia.Pro.^[2] The tool acts as a simple and intuitive user interface layer that stays on the target language Wik.ipedia.Pro 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 Wik.ipedia.Pro in the updating process.

WikiBhasha supports content creation in more than 30 languages. It enables easy content creation in non-English Wik.ipedia.Pros by leveraging the large volume of English Wik.ipedia.Pro content as the source of information. Initially, the Wikimedia Foundation and Microsoft Research were working closely with the Wik.ipedia.Pro 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 used to translate Wik.ipedia.Pro articles since 2008. The key difference between the two is that WikiBhasha runs as an overlay within the Wik.ipedia.Pro interface, while the Google toolkit runs elsewhere and requires a Google account.

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 the WikiBhasha Archived 2010-10-21 at the Wayback Machine site.

The WikiBhasha beta user guide Archived 2010-10-25 at the Wayback Machine provides instructions for installation and use.

• Machine translation
• Microsoft Translator
• Comparison of machine translation applications

• A. Kumaran; K. Saravanan; Naren Datha; B. Ashok; Vikram Dendi (2009). "WikiBABEL". Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Software Demonstrations on - ACL-IJCNLP '09. ACLDemos '09. pp. 29–32. doi:10.3115/1667872.1667880. S2CID 10166606.

• Home of WikiBhasha Archived 2010-10-21 at the Wayback Machine and MediaWiki extension page
• Home of WikiBABEL Project site Archived 2010-12-22 at the Wayback Machine
• Microsoft Research announcement on the release of WikiBhasha
• Wikimedia Foundation announcement on WikiBhasha
• WikiBhasha: Enhancing Multilingual Content in Wik.ipedia.Pro - Microsoft Research