Extension:WikiBhasha/User guide

About this guide
This user guide is intended for users of the WikiBhasha beta application on Wikipedia. The guide briefly clarifies the purpose and the basic workflow of the WikiBhasha beta application & its usage. This guide is based on the PDF and Word version of the guide that was originally available in the MediaWiki source code repository.

Conventions used in this guide

 * Source Language : In the context of sourcing and translating content, Source Language refers to the language of the Wikipedia from which you are sourcing content. In WikiBhasha beta, source language is English.
 * Target Language : The language in which you want to contribute content to Wikipedia. For example, if you want to contribute to a Japanese Wikipedia, then Japanese is the target language.

WikiBhasha
WikiBhasha beta is an extension that helps a community of users to create multilingual content in their Wikipedia, leveraging existing content from other Wikipedias. This extension manifests as a simple and intuitive user interface layer that stays on the target language Wikipedia article that is being created or enhanced through it, for the duration of the user session. At the end of the session, all content created or modified are submitted to the target language Wikipedia.

The UI layer implements a simple 3-step process helping the user in:
 * 1) gathering content from source language Wikipedia,
 * 2) composing the target language Wikipedia article, and finally,
 * 3) submitting new content to the target Wikipedia.

The UI layer integrates content discovery, linguistic and collaborative services, transparently.

Though WikiBhasha beta extension is architected to be transparent with respect to languages of the source and target Wikipedias, the beta version focuses on leveraging the large English Wikipedia content primarily, for enhancing the content in non-English Wikipedias. Hence, WikiBhasha beta currently supports all translation pairs in Bing Translator (http://www.microsofttranslator.com), in which the source language is English. WikiBhasha beta currently tested on Internet Explorer (7 or above) on Windows XP, Windows Vista & Windows 7 and on Firefox (3.5 or above) on Windows and Linux (Fedora 11 or above).

Please ensure that you comply with Wikipedia norms for all content contribution to Wikipedia.

Availability
WikiBhasha beta is open-sourced as a MediaWiki Extension and will have to go through the review and approval process before it is available as an extension on the Wikimedia platform. Until this time, WikiBhasha is temporarily available as a user-script in Wikipedia from en:User:WikiBhasha.MSR, and also as a bookmarklet from an external page. Please see the installation section for details.

Installing WikiBhasha as an extension
As the original author, Microsoft Research India will work with the open source developer community to get this extension reviewed and approved for Wikipedia. For now, users could use WikiBhasha as a Wikipedia user-script or as a bookmarklet from www.WikiBhasha.org.

Installing WikiBhasha as a user script
Those users who have Wikipedia login credentials may install WikiBhasha as follows. Note that you need to install the user-gadget in each of the language Wikipedia's you may be interested in.
 * 1) Log in to Wikipedia. (You need to create an account on Wikipedia if you do not already have one.)
 * 2) In every language Wikipedia that you are interested in:
 * 3) Visit "", and click on the "" tab.
 * 4) Edit your "Vector.js" file (or the JavaScript file of another skin you are using) and add the following:

Please save your changes and reload your page to see the script added to your profile. You should see WikiBhasha in the left side as a menu item, and on Edit page as a button (as below):

! Insert image "Biology" here.

! Insert image "Editing Sandpiper" here.

As a bookmarklet in Firefox
Add a Bookmarklet to the Bookmarks Toolbar like this: 1. On the Installation tab, right-click the WikiBhasha beta link and click Bookmark This Link. 2. On the New Bookmark window, in the Folder list, select Bookmarks Toolbar. 3. Click Save.
 * 1) Make sure the ‘Bookmarks Toolbar’ is visible in Firefox. If it is not visible, on the View menu, point to Toolbars and then click Bookmarks Toolbar.
 * 2) In WikiBhasha beta homepage: