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Microsoft Research contributes code to MediaWiki under GPL & Apache 2.0 licenses

30 points by avar 16y ago

zitterbewegung 16y ago
What does this extension actually do? Allow for unicode to be used in mediawiki?
- _delirium 16y ago
  Unicode's already supported and widely used, so can't be that. It seems to have something to do with UI support for finding/translating text between different Wikipedia languages. edit: Fairly comprehensive documentation (PDF): http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/WikiBhasha/doc/WikiBhasha_Beta_Ext_User_Doc_1%200.pdf?revision=74892&view=co http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/W...
  - duskwuff 16y ago
    Looks like a fairly comprehensive tool for translating articles from other Wikipedias into a target language. Includes tools for discovering source material, as well as something called the "Collaborative Translation Framework" for crowdsourcing translations of individual sentences. Looks nifty. Small Wikipedias will love this.
pgbovine 16y ago
it's not that weird like "zomg micro$oft contributes GPL code zomg zomg" ... Microsoft Research is, at its core, an academic research lab that publishes in academia. it's no more surprising than if a university contributes GPL code back to some open source project. (of course, people at MSR do often hack on proprietary projects that they can't open source, though)
- fungi 16y ago
  basically agree... but it is at least a little more surprising considering MS is still pumping out this trash mms://msnvidweb.wmod.msecnd.net/a10026/e1/ds/us/CMG_US/CMG_Microsoft/9e361baf-9952-4d5e-9a9a-4b0bd0179d8d.wmv (if you have silverlight http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/US/details/faaf9eb8-77c6-4bed-bc08-c069a7bfbb04 http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/US/details/faaf9eb8-77c...)
  - WalterGR 16y ago
    it is at least a little more surprising considering MS is still pumping out this trash Microsoft is a huge company. I doubt Office Marketing and Microsoft Research coordinated their release of a marketing video and GPL code, respectively.

30 points by avar 16y ago

zitterbewegung 16y ago

What does this extension actually do? Allow for unicode to be used in mediawiki?

_delirium 16y ago
Unicode's already supported and widely used, so can't be that. It seems to have something to do with UI support for finding/translating text between different Wikipedia languages. edit: Fairly comprehensive documentation (PDF): http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/WikiBhasha/doc/WikiBhasha_Beta_Ext_User_Doc_1%200.pdf?revision=74892&view=co http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/W...
- duskwuff 16y ago
  Looks like a fairly comprehensive tool for translating articles from other Wikipedias into a target language. Includes tools for discovering source material, as well as something called the "Collaborative Translation Framework" for crowdsourcing translations of individual sentences. Looks nifty. Small Wikipedias will love this.

pgbovine 16y ago

it's not that weird like "zomg micro$oft contributes GPL code zomg zomg" ... Microsoft Research is, at its core, an academic research lab that publishes in academia. it's no more surprising than if a university contributes GPL code back to some open source project. (of course, people at MSR do often hack on proprietary projects that they can't open source, though)

fungi 16y ago
basically agree... but it is at least a little more surprising considering MS is still pumping out this trash mms://msnvidweb.wmod.msecnd.net/a10026/e1/ds/us/CMG_US/CMG_Microsoft/9e361baf-9952-4d5e-9a9a-4b0bd0179d8d.wmv (if you have silverlight http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/US/details/faaf9eb8-77c6-4bed-bc08-c069a7bfbb04 http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/US/details/faaf9eb8-77c...)
- WalterGR 16y ago
  it is at least a little more surprising considering MS is still pumping out this trash Microsoft is a huge company. I doubt Office Marketing and Microsoft Research coordinated their release of a marketing video and GPL code, respectively.