Microsoft Research India has built a Web-based tool that lets people edit Wikipedia articles across multiple languages, allowing the quick filling-out of entries that may be longer in English than in another tongue.
The WikiBhasha tool, which is now in beta, is a MediaWiki extension, a Wikipedia user script and a bookmarklet, Microsoft said. Right now, it works with Internet Explorer 7 and IE 8 on Windows and Firefox 3.5+ on Windows and Linux Fedora.
The translation is done by Microsoft Translator, which supports 31 languages, but WikiBhasha only supports translation from English. Wikipedia text can be translated automatically, then tweaked.
A bunch of information is here. Below is an explanatory video featuring Aishwarya Ratan, a principle researcher at Microsoft Research India.
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