Wikipedia:Meetup/AfroCROWD/NSF REU ILLC March 2022
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Welcome to the National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Wikipedia Translate-a-thon with AfroCROWD March 2022 Editathon!
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The National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF REU) is hosting a virtual Wikipedia editing workshop series and Translatathon with AfroCROWD. At this March 2022 event based at Brooklyn College, Students, professors, and faculty will translate Wikipedia articles among any languages which attendees understand.
New York City has a large immigrant population and great diversity of speakers of various languages. We are pleased to take advantage of this wealth of diversity for our first virtual translate-a-thon.
Today's goals
[edit]By the end of this event we want you to
- Get your Wikipedia username and account if you don't have one
- Add at least one sentence or other contribution to Wikipedia
- Practice adding a citation to an article
Let's Get started
[edit]- Please sign up for your own Wikipedia user account: go to here to create your accounts (please don't avoid your real name, and please choose a name and password you will remember)
- Please sign up for the event on the Dashboard here this allows us to keep track of edits in this project during the course.
- Do you have a list of books or references assigned? Please let us know if you need help with citations.
List of articles to be improved
[edit]Editing list provided by course professors
Useful / Advanced support
[edit]AfroCROWD Tutorials:
- Wikipedia and Languages
- How to Edit Wikipedia Series
- Introduction to Wikipedia
- Creating Wikipedia Citations
- Wikipedia Layout
- Adding Images to Wikipedia
Find more, useful information by clicking "Show" to the right
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Suppose that one has a Wikipedia article in one language, and wants to see the other languages in which that Wikipedia article exists. Here is the process:
These are the most common methods: 1. Use Wikipedia Gap Finder (you can customize your search): http://recommend.wmflabs.org/#Recommend 2. Using the English Wikipedia, find an article that interests you. Then, look to the left of the page, in the gray bar beneath the Wikipedia globe. At the tail end of that list of links, you'll see "Languages," and links to all of the languages that also have that article. Languages are spelled in that language's alphabet or phonemes. For example, you won't see "Japanese" or "French," you'll see "日本語" and "Français". Is the language you're studying listed? If so, click the language to see the same article in that language. You can compare the two articles to get a sense of what one has that the other does not. If not, that means there's no corresponding article in that language. 3. Head to the Wikipedia in the language you are studying. In the search bar, type: WP:GA (this will also work with Wikipedias using non-Roman alphabets). You'll be taken to a list of "Good Articles" on that language's Wikipedia, the best articles it has to offer. (You may need to find the page that lists them, if it's separate). Find a Good Article on your target language's Wikipedia. Check the bar on the side to see if there is a corresponding article in English. If there isn't, great! You can translate the article into English, and contribute it to the English Wikipedia. Sometimes, the article exists, but is very short. That's OK, too. However, if both languages have well-developed pages on the topic, you will want to find another article. It can be very challenging to add content to an already-developed article.
You can access the tool from Special:ContentTranslation from Wikipedia in any language. Accessing it for the first time will also enable the tool for that wiki.
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Keyboard Localization
[edit]For best practices when it comes to working with Latin-Extended and non-Latin character sets, see our Keyboard Optimization Guide.
Thanks
[edit]Thank you Wiki Coaches, professors and students!