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Course name: French to English Translation

Institution: Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

Instructor: Cris Silva

Subject: French

Course dates: 2015-02-24 – 2015-05-22

Approximate number of student editors: 1

This is the course page for a French to English translation assignment at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

Timeline[edit]

Week 1: Translation essentials[edit]

In class

Overview of the course
Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
Wikipedia is a community: a brief overview of its rules, expectations, and etiquette
The differences between English Wikipedia and other Wikipedias
Handout: Editing Wikipedia, Using Talk Pages (available in print or online from the Wiki Education Foundation)

Assignment

Create a Wikipedia account and a user page, and add your user name to the list of students on the bottom of this course page.
Complete the Student Training for Translation Assignments.
Look through the help page about translating on Wikipedia, focusing on the section "How to translate"

Week 2: Choose an article[edit]

In class

Choose two articles (a first choice, and a backup) to translate into English. These should exist on the French Wikipedia but not on the English Wikipedia. Post the article links on your talk page, and submit them to the instructor for review.
- Though you should not feel limited to this selection, here are some possibilities identified by Ian, one of the WikiEdu Content Experts:
  - fr:Histoire de la Savoie de 1860 à 1914
Once your instructor has approved one or both of your choices, finalize your choice of which article to translate.

Assignment

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

Week 3: Translation[edit]

In class

Be ready to start translating your approved article in a sandbox.

Assignment

Continue to translate your work.

Week 4: Publish your work[edit]

In class

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

Assignment

Move sandbox articles into main space.
- Do NOT copy and paste your text, or there will be no record of your work history. Follow these instructions on how to move your work.
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}} to the bottom of the Wikipedia article.
Complete your assignment report based on the grading guidelines below.

Week 5: Revise and review[edit]

In class

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.

Grading[edit]

60%

Is the translation accurate?

25%

Does the article use natural vocabulary?

15%

Is the article's style consistent?

Additional resources for translating Wikipedia[edit]

There are a number of translation resources available on Wikipedia which are not listed in the timeline above but which nonetheless may be very useful to you:

WikiProject Echo is a group of users interested in translation on Wikipedia. Their project page contains a great deal of resources for translating in general, including several that are language-specific. For example, there is a list of French language resources.
A few Wikipedia users have expressed an interest in helping others with translation tasks. You can find lists of French translators at Wikipedia:Translators available#French-to-English and Wikipedia:Translation/French/Translators.
For help finding an article which does not yet exist in English:
- Not in the Other Language is a very useful tool which can help you to find articles in one language but not another. You may have noticed Wikipedia has a categorizing system. At the bottom of almost every page you can see a list of categories to which that page belongs. This tool works with those categories. It compares the articles in one category to articles in the same category in a different languages, outputting a list of articles that don't overlap. It also allows you to specify category "depth", which means the number of subcategories to search. Be sure to replace the default "de" with "fr" in the "In language" field!