I have refrained from participating in google's translating project because of the
same concerns Osama has referred to. Your statements are partly reassuring.
Can you give more details about the statement "All the data collected through
Wikipedia, we plan to release freely as
linguistics research resource, along with Wikimedia Foundation."... This is a major
concern for me and other wikipedians who see themselves as part of FOSS movement. Assuring
that these data will be released under appropriate license in a usable format will
encourage me (and others) to contribute.
--- On Thu, 12/23/10, A Kumaran <A.Kumaran(a)microsoft.com> wrote:
From: A Kumaran <A.Kumaran(a)microsoft.com>
Subject: [Wikiar-l] WikiBhasha Beta - introduction and workshop invitation
To: "wikiar-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <wikiar-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: "A Kumaran" <A.Kumaran(a)microsoft.com>
Date: Thursday, December 23, 2010, 12:37 AM
Bilal/Osama - Thanks for your interest in WikiBhasha. I want to post a note to this
comment as a response, and, I would encourage you to attend the workshop and have an open
discussion with us as well.
We started the WikiBhasha as a collaborative platform for people to create multilingual
data on Wikipedia, which can also symbiotically help computational linguistics community
in research. This platform aims to make it easy for a language community to create
content in their respective Wikipedias, leveraging the large English Wikipedia
appropriately; we designed the system to help people create content in a target language
Wikipedia, by helping them to discover appropriate content from English Wikipedia,
translate and correct as appropriate, add new content, and shape their contribution to
target Wikipedia. Also, there are provisions for sharing their translation knowledge with
others. Large content in multilingual Wikipedia has obvious benefit for local language
communities, and in addition, can benefit significantly the research community as well.
All the data collected through Wikipedia, we plan to release freely as linguistics
research
resource, along with Wikimedia Foundation.
We had released the WikiBhasha as an open-source extension in MediaWiki
(
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiBhasha); we encourage developers to
participate in making this tool better, and more usable by Wikipedians. Microsoft
Research works extensively with research communities across the globe. We publish
extensively the results of our research in the public domain for our peer community to use
and to build on further. Just like the number of free tools that we have released for user
communities (such as the Worldwide Telescope, Dryad and DryadLINQ), WikiBhasha is one more
example of MSR's commitment to working openly with user communities.
Hope to meet you in the workshop.
A Kumaran PhD
Multilingual Systems Research
Microsoft Research India
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/kumarana
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