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Course name: TRAN 2220: Introduction to Translation into English II

Institution: York University

Instructor: Julie

Wikipedia Expert: Adam (Wiki Ed)

Subject: Translation

Course dates: 2016-01-04 – 2016-04-05

Approximate number of student editors: 12

Student	Assigned	Reviewing
JKH2200
Mxkoges
Exotorific
Hurrayweng
Jleungg

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings

Thursday, 4 February 2016

In class - Wikipedia essentials

Overview of the course
Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
Understanding Wikipedia as a community, we'll discuss its expectations and etiquette.

Handout: Editing Wikipedia

Assignment - Practicing the basics

Create an account and a user page on Wikipedia
Enroll in this course.
Complete the Online Training for Language Students.
To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, introduce yourself to another student on their user talk page.

Week 2

Course meetings

Tuesday, 9 February 2016 | Thursday, 11 February 2016

In class - Choose an article

Choose two articles (a first choice, and a backup) to translate into English. Post the article links on your talk page, and submit them to the instructor for review.
Once your instructor has approved one or both of your choices, finalize your choice of which article to translate.

Assignment - Begin translating

Copy your article from the target-language Wikipedia into your sandbox.
Begin to translate your work.

Supplementary trainings:

[[../../../training/students/sources|Sources and Citations]]
[[../../../training/students/sandboxes|Sandboxes and Mainspace]]

Week 3

Course meetings

Tuesday, 23 February 2016 | Thursday, 25 February 2016

In class - Translation

Be ready to discuss your progess translating your article.

Assignment - Translation

Continue to translate your work.

In class - Translation

Be ready to discuss your progess translating your article.
Carefully note the original citations for facts in your source article.
- If an original source doesn't seem reliable, feel free to omit it from your translation.

Handouts: Citing Sources and Avoid Plagiarism

Assignment - Translation and fact-checking

Continue to translate your work.
Introduce citations from English-language texts that support the facts stated in your translated article. Adjust your translation if necessary.
For each sentence you translate, make a note of the sources used in the original article. Are they good sources? Do they really say what the Wikipedia article describes?

Week 4

Course meetings

Tuesday, 1 March 2016 | Thursday, 3 March 2016

In class - Publish your work

Discussion of fact-checking translated work, finding English-language sources.

Assignment - Publish your work

Move sandbox articles into main space.
- If you are expanding an existing article, it's time to add your revised translation (including English sources, when available). Copy your edit into the article. If you are making many small edits, save after each edit before you make the next one. Do NOT paste over the entire existing article, or large sections of the existing article. Be sure to check the article's talk page and respond to suggestions from Wikipedians. Don't panic if your edits are removed or changed! Discuss it civilly on the article's talk page, and make a note of it for your report or presentation about your editing experience.
- If you are creating a new article, do NOT copy and paste your text, or there will be no record of your work history. Follow instruction on the "Moving out of your sandbox" handout.
In your first edit to the article namespace, include a link of the source article (i.e., the article you translated) in the "edit summary" before hitting "save."
Copy the code {{Translated page|es|Page Title}} to the bottom of the Wikipedia article, replacing es with the language code of the language you a translating from and replacing Page Title with the title of the source page.

Handout: Moving out of your sandbox

Week 5

Course meetings

Tuesday, 8 March 2016 | Thursday, 10 March 2016

In class - Revise and review

Individual presentations about your translation process, how you selected your articles, and your observations about how this differs from a traditional translation assignment.

Milestones

Students have finished all their work on Wikipedia that will be considered for grading.