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Dec
16

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The New Online Encyclopedia with a Non-profit Motive

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Ecured is the unique name of the new version of an online encyclopedia launched in Cuba. When a user clicks the online site, www.ecured.cu, the words that the site uses to describe itself are “Ecured is the accumulation and development of knowledge with a non-profit, pro-democracy aim from a decolonizing point of view.”

This site which is similar to the famous site Wikipedia, already has about 20000 entries. Interestingly the site encourages editorial changes from everybody who comes to the site, although restrictions exist on about 2,000 controversial articles.

According to sources, Users approved by Ecured administrators will be able to update entries, and the site will be available to all Internet users in Cuba, an estimated 1.6 million out of a population of 11.2 million.

Nov
11

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Wikipedia All Set To Win Over Indian Users

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Wikipedia plans to open an office in India.

Online Encyclopedia, wikepedia is all set opens its branch in India. In a bid to popularize the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, its founder Jimmy Wales has announced plans to open a branch in India.

Jimmy Wales, who is in India, in a bid to popularize wikepedia, has already announced its plans to set up an office in India, which would be its second office in the world after San Francisco. The Indian project is supposed to attract Indians and also to build a “strong and healthy India based projects.

According to Wales “As a media project, for me India was the perfect place because we wish to work with a variety of people and India has a lot of communities. The community in India should lead and Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) will follow them.”

He also encouraged Indians to contribute more and edit more on wikepedia.

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Sep
9

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Google To Work On Health Content Translation

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Google has asked for volunteers to translate its health-related articles in Hindi and other local languages to provide online medical information to people from all walks of life.

Google.org has launched a new initiative called Health Sparks to translate health related information into local languages like Arabic, Hindi and Swahili. The search giant said it has chosen hundreds of health articles, written in English, from Wikipedia for their translation. Volunteers who are bilingual in English and anyone of the vernaculars are being encouraged to translate the literatures with assistance from the Google Translator Toolkit.

Translators are also supposed to review the articles and make it locally relevant before publishing it on the corresponding local language Wikipedia site. The initiative aims to help increase the amount of high-quality online health information in local languages which started 5 days ago is beginning pilot projects to support community-based, crowd-sourced translation of health information from English into Arabic, Hindi and Swahili.

Pilot programmes are supported with a donation incentive, awarding local charities with funds based on the number of words volunteers translate, Google said in a statement. For the first 60 days, Google will donate 3 US cents (about 45 paise) to the Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, for each English word translated in Hindi. The maximum donation would USD 50,000.


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