Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Translation Studies - 2020/2021 Semester One
![]() | The Translation Studies MSc project 2020/2021 in a nutshell:
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About the event
[edit]Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? Particularly in different language Wikipedias? Commencing in September 2020 and concluding on Friday 15 January 2021, the University's Information Services team will run a Wikipedia translate-a-thon.
We will provide training on how to edit and participate in an open knowledge community. Participants will be supported to translate articles.
(Video) Introduction to the Content Translation tool (1 minute).
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How do I prepare?
[edit]- Sign up for the event using the Dashboard link here.
- Create a Wikipedia account
- Learn about editing if you like: Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information
- Think about what you would like to edit - please prepare some materials to bring with you on the day
- Resources for the project are available in this Google Drive folder here.
Further reading
[edit]The main policies and guidelines can be found at the following pages:
- Wikipedia:Five pillars
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
- Wikipedia:No original research
- Wikipedia:Verifiability
- Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest
- Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
Programme
[edit]Trainers
[edit]Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh
Class List
[edit]Please put your Wikipedia username in the space below:
- NoraAlbawardi
The assignment
[edit]15 steps to translation success
[edit]- The first step is to Create an account.
- In the first session we will introduce you to Wikipedia, how to format a page and provide advice on articles to select for your assignment.
- If not already done so the Content Translation tool must be enabled. This can be done in the Beta menu (top right corner of your screen). Once in the Beta menu, make sure the Content Translation option is ticked and then click Save (bottom left corner of your screen).
- Now you need to select an article or articles to translate. The tools below (categories, portals, Gapfinder, Not in the other language) will help you decide. Importantly, it should be a high quality article (check the references being used) of suitable importance & subject matter.
- Select your chosen article(s) by 5pm on Friday 9th October 2020. The article you select must be approved by BOTH your course tutor AND Ewan McAndrew (email: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk) before you begin. Once you have approval from both then email the approved article title along with the languages being translated from and to ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk
- The assignment must be in excess of 1500 words this semester (& by that we include only the main prose text - not the notes, references & bibliography etc. at the end of the article). Copy the main prose text from the source article onto a new Microsoft Word document. Add the Word count at the end of the article (e.g. Word count = 1554 words). Save the Word document as YOUR NAME - Source Article - Source Article Title and make sure you have recorded the word count at the bottom of this new document.
- Go to the Content Translation tool in the Contributions menu.
- Click Start a new translation.
- Input the languages you are translating from and to.
- Input the source article title.
- Click Start translation.
- The article will then be translated by you paragraph by paragraph. Check and double-check the paragraphs being translated that they make sense in the target language and that the formatting copies across correctly. Important: Save your work as you go by copying completed paragraphs into a second Word document entitled: 'YOUR NAME - New translated article - New article title'.
- Consult the Content Translation Guide, FAQ and screencast to help you with any issues.
- Aim to publish on the target language Wikipedia w/c Monday 11th January 2021 and no later than 5pm on Friday 15th January 2021 so that the project is finally concluded on Friday 15th January 2021. Once you are satisfied with your translation email ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk to advise this and then click Publish translation to complete your translation. Make sure the newly published article has enough categories and links to other pages (and that other pages link to it). If your article was not over 1500 words (this word count has to be recorded at the bottom of your 2nd Word document for the new translated article you have just created) then you will need to repeat this process with a second article.
- If your newly translated article(s) are now in excess of 1500 words, congratulations you have created your first page(s) and the assignment. Copy the text of the source article (with word count) to an MS Word document. Copy the text of the new translated article (with word count) to another MS Word document. Upload both to Learn by 5pm on Monday 21st December 2020.
One final step
[edit]Finally, Wikipedia articles each have a sidebar listing its counterparts in other languages, so the last thing you should do is to make sure this includes links to and from the new translated material. A guide on this can be found at Help:Interlanguage links.
Choosing an article
[edit]- The word limit is 1500 words but please make sure the chosen article is sufficiently challenging. The article in question will need to be run past both your portfolio tutor and myself to avoid issues where the original source articles do not have enough citations or references so consequently the target article did not either.
- Please aim to select an article from the Featured Articles quality criteria (the highest quality standard on Wikipedia) or the Good Article quality criteria (the 2nd highest). There is a wider pool to choose from on English Wikipedia because it is the largest Wikipedia but you’ll notice that if you click on the Featured article link, there are links on the left hand side of pages to the ‘Featured Articles’ page in each of the other language Wikipedias. You will find the same if you click on the ‘Good Article’ links. There will be a lot less featured and good articles in other language Wikipedias but as long as the article has achieved good article status or featured article status, regardless of the language then it should be of the required standard to translate for our purposes. Therefore please take extra time to choose your source article(s) so that they are the right length, right level of linguistic challenge and have enough citations so that they will have no such problems in the target Wikipedia.
- You can view Pages needing translation into English and do category searches for articles in a subject you are interested in e.g. Category:Articles needing translation from foreign-language Wikipedias. You can also view the Portal directory to search portals in the same way.
- Tool: Gapfinder - This tool has been developed to help editors find missing content in any language for which there is a Wikipedia edition. GapFinder helps you discover articles that exist in one language but are missing in another. Start by selecting a source language and a target language. GapFinder will find trending articles in the source that are missing in the target. If you are interested in a particular topic area, provide a seed article in the source language, and GapFinder will find related articles missing in the target. Click on a card to take a closer look at a missing article to see if you would like to create it from scratch or translate it.
- Tool: "Not in the other language" - This tool looks for Wikidata items that have a page in one language but not in the other (using Wikipedia categories to filter the results).
- Check the word count of the source article. You can use this tool Search tool to look up the article & its word count but this includes references in its count so is not accurate enough for our purposes. Hence you should copy the article's main text (not including notes, references, bibliographies etc.) into a Word document so you can get a more accurate indication of the main body of the article's wordcount.
Assignment details
[edit]Articles to be settled on by 5pm on Monday 12th October 2020.
# | Wiki Username | Chosen article(s) | Language translating from | Language Translating to | Newly translated article | Peer feedback received (Y/N) |
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1. | Example user Stinglehammer |
Example source article Barack Obama |
English | Arabic | باراك أوباما | n/a |
2. | Zhang Yitong | Reception history of Jane Austen | English | Chinese | 简·奥斯汀的接受史 | Yes |
3. | Yutian Chen | Little Fishing Creek | English | Chinese | 小钓鱼溪 | Yes |
4. | Wang Shu | Alma Vessels John, civil rights activist. | English | Chinese | 阿尔玛·维瑟尔斯·约翰 | Yes |
5. | Tian Yang | Tryon Creek | English | Chinese | 特赖恩河 | Yes |
6. | Lan Yushang | Elizabeth Raffald - English author, innovator and entrepreneur who played an important role in the development of the wedding cake. | English | Chinese | 伊丽莎白·拉法尔德 | Yes |
7. | Luyao Wang | Taiko, a broad range of Japanese percussion instruments | English | Chinese | 太鼓 (Draft needing restored/corrected) Update 15/2 - draft to be reviewed. |
Yes |
8. | DONG Nan | Trump wall | English | Chinese | 特朗普隔离墙 | Yes |
9. | Sam Ho | 香港太空館 | Chinese | English | Hong Kong Space Museum | Yes |
10. | Xue Zhou | Evelyn Waugh | English | Chinese | 伊夫林·沃 Update 15/2 - draft to be improved |
Yes |
11. | Zhenya Li | 韩国向中国移交志愿军遗骸 | Chinese | English | South Korea handed over the remains of Chinese People 's Volunteers Army to China Update 15/2 - Citations to be added. |
Yes |
12. | Huichao Wang | Cortinarius violaceus fungi | English | Chinese | 紫丝绒膜菇 | Yes |
13. | Qi Zhang | Authentic Science Fiction (periodical) | English | Chinese | Yes | |
14. | Jingwen Li | Liberty Bell | English | Chinese | 自由钟 | Yes |
15 | Kaile Liu | Robert Burnell (one of the most important royal officials in 13th cent. England) | English | Chinese | 罗伯特·伯内尔 | Yes |
16 | Nan Gu | Walt Disney World Railroad | English | Chinese | 迪士尼世界铁路 | Yes |
17 | Jinxuan Lei | Nature fakers controversy | English | Chinese | 自然骗徒之争 | Yes |
18 | Fuqiang ZHAO | Linguistic Society of America | English | Chinese | 美国语言学会 | Yes |
19 | Dan Zhang | Northern rosella (bird) | English | Chinese |
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Yes |
20 | Yang Ming | Mozart family grand tour | English | Chinese | Update 15/2 - article to published to Personal Draft. | Yes |
21 | Jie Li | Ben's Chili Bowl (restaurant) | English | Chinese | 本氏辣酱热狗店 | Yes |
22 | Wenxin Cheng | Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele - large oil-on-oak panel painting completed by Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck | English | Chinese | 圣母和圣婴与教士范德帕勒 Article to be restored. Update 11/2 - submitted for AFC review Update 15/2 - Published here! :) |
Yes |
23 | Yujie Liu | Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele - large oil-on-oak panel painting completed by Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck | English | Chinese | 圣母和圣婴与教士范德帕勒 Article to be restored. Update 11/2 - submitted for AFC review Update 15/2 - Published here! :) |
Yes |
24 | Binjie Xiang | Indian Camp is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway | English | Chinese | 印第安人营地 | Yes |
25 | Tong | Portrait of Mariana of Austria - a 1652–53 oil-on-canvas painting by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age | English | Chinese | Update 15/2 - Draft to be prepared for review. | Yes |
26 | Zhao Kexin | English | Chinese | Yes | ||
27 | Emily Owen | 浅虫温泉 | Japanese | English | Asamushi Onsen (Japanese:(浅虫温泉) is the site of a hot spring, on the eastern edge of the city of Aomori in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. | Yes |
28 | Larissa Webster | Marcha Estatal Contra las Violencias Machistas | Spanish | English | Spanish National March in Opposition to Male Violence(s) Against Women | Yes |
29 | Shan Nie | The Green Child | English | Chinese | 绿孩子 | Yes |
30 | Yiting Dai | Marvin Gaye (song) | English | Chinese | 马文·盖伊_(歌曲) | Yes |
31 | NoraAlbawardi |
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مبنى الكابيتول في ولاية بنسلفانيا | n/a | |
32 | Kangqian Dai | Eliza Acton | English | Chinese | Draft page submitted for review | Yes |
33 | Muzhi Feng | Eliza Acton | English | Chinese | Draft page submitted for review Update 15/2 - Article published here :) |
Yes |
34 | Katherine Laidlaw | Malgven | French | English | Malgven | Yes |
35 | Marie Boyum | Fun Home is a 2006 graphic memoir by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel. | English | Norwegian | Fun Home | Yes |
36 | Ailin Li | Mozart family grand tour | English | Chinese | Update 15/2 - article to published to Personal Draft. | Yes |
37 | Li Li | Development of Grand Theft Auto V | English | Chinese | Draft page on Chinese Wikipedia - awaiting AFC review Update 15/2 - AFC rejected. Proofreading reqd. |
Yes |
38 | Danyang Gao | Gather Together in My Name (1974) is a memoir by American writer and poet Maya Angelou. It is the second book in Angelou's series of seven autobiographies. The book begins immediately following the events described in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. | English | Chinese | Draft article on Chinese Wikipedia - been reviewed. Corrections to be made. Update 15/2 - Corrections and proofreading reqd still. |
Yes |
39 | Siwan Wu | Birthday-number effect | English | Chinese | Emailed 22nd January to chase submission. Update 15/2 - Article published here :) |
Yes |
40 | Sixian Qi | Reception history of Jane Austen | English | Chinese | 简·奥斯汀的接受史 | Yes |
41 | Riqueza H | Grand Jument is a mare of gigantic size which serves as a mount for the giants in several works of the Renaissance. Stemming from medieval traditions, themselves inspired by Celtic mythology, it appears in The large and inestimable chronicles of the great and enormous giant Gargantua, written in 1532. | French | English | The Great Mare | Yes |
42 | Evelina Mihailescu | Japanese | English | Emailed 22 Jan to chase submissions. Update 15/2 - Referencing to be fixed and articles published. |
Tba | |
43 | Ed Jefferson | A-bus | Danish | English | A-bus (Copenhagen) | Yes |
44 | Yanyu Liu | Kratos (God of War) | English | Chinese | Draft page on Chinese Wikipedia Working on 2nd draft Update 15/2 - Article to be redrafted here. |
Yes |
45 | Huang Mengxiao | Digital media use and mental health | English | Chinese | 数字媒体使用与心理健康 | Yes |
46 | Bowen He | The Unconquered (1940 play) | English | Chinese | 不败者_(1940年戏剧) | Yes |
47 | Luyao Xu | The Blind Leading the Blind is a painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, completed in 1568. | English | Chinese | 盲人引领盲人 | Yes |
48 | Yue Li | Arts in the Philippines | English | Chinese | Draft article on Chinese Wikipedia - been reviewed Update 15/2 - corrections to be made and article needs resubmitted for review. |
Yes |
49 | Alex Li | Meaning of Life (album) | English | Chinese | 生活真谛(凯莉·克拉克森的第八张专辑) | Yes |
50 | Ruolin Wu | Golding Bird(1814–1854) was a British medical doctor and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He became a great authority on kidney diseases and was innovative in the field of the medical use of electricity, designing much of his own equipment. | English | Chinese | Emailed 22 Jan to chase submission Update 15/2 - Article in draft space. References to be fixed so article can be submitted for AFC review. |
Yes |
51 | GAOXINGJIAN | Bobby Shmurda | English | Chinese | Draft article on Chinese Wikipedia - reviewed. Corrections to be made. Update 15/2 - corrections to be made so article can be resubmitted for review. |
Awaited |
Content Translation
[edit]- Guide explaining the Content Translation Tool.
- Content Translation FAQ
- List of all the different language Wikipedias
- Statistics about all the different Language Wikipedias
- Content Translation Stats
- Wikipedia:Translation - How to translate
- Video: "The Wikipedia Content Translation Tool reaches 100,000 translations" (short intro to Content Translation).
- Video - "The one true international language is translation" (Presentation at Wikimania 2016).
- Video: "Tech Talk: The MediaWiki Content Translation Extension" (Presentation from November 2014)
- Video: How-to video for doing medical translation with Wikipedia's Content Translation tool (using summary files).
- Video: How I can write or translate Wikipedia articles into Arabic
- Video: Content Translation in action (Wikimania 2015)
- Help page: Interlanguage links
- Discussion notes from Wikimania 2016 on the Content Translation tool
- Teaching translation with Wikipedia - the UCL example.
- Teaching Translation via Wikipedia - Education project at universities around the world.
Helpful links
[edit]Once you've learned the basics of editing using Wikipedia’s Visual Editor, I hope that you'll stay logged in and edit or create more articles. I've added some booklets and some links below that you may find useful. As a first step you may like to check out what What Wikipedia is not along with its 5 guiding principles: The 5 pillars.
- The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page - a fun tutorial introducing new editors to Wikipedia
- Visual Editor user guide
- Questions – a guide on where to ask questions
- The Teahouse new editor help space
- Wikipedia Help pages
- Article wizard – a Wizard to help you create articles
- The simplified ruleset – a summary of Wikipedia's most important rules
- Guide to Wikipedia – a thorough step-by-step guide to Wikipedia
- Is your topic notable enough for an article?
- Be Bold!
- Don't let grumpy users scare you off.
- Learn from others
- How to write a great article
- A simplified manual of style
- Please sign your messages on talk pages with four tildes (~~~~). This will automatically insert your "signature" (your username and a date stamp). The
or
button, on the tool bar above Wikipedia's text editing window, also does this.
- If you would like to play around with your new Wiki skills without changing the mainspace, the Sandbox is for you.
Sources
[edit]- Wikipedia is a tertiary resource, which relies upon secondary sources. Wikipedia is not a place for original research.
- For more guidance on the use of sources, see this guide here.
- Editors will also have access to some University of Edinburgh e-resources.
- Search for articles on Google Scholar
- Try the Wikipedia Library's list of free resources
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- The Hathi Trust Digital Library - 100s of novels & other assorted texts
- Shareable Images can be found through a Creative Commons search(which includes Google, Flickr & Wikicommons in its search).
- Images from Edinburgh University's collections - http://images.is.ed.ac.uk/
Suggested sources:
[edit]General
[edit]- DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more.
News sources
[edit]Theses databases
[edit]- Edinburgh Research Archive. For theses produced at the University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Research Archive
- Proquest Dissertations
- More at: Edinburgh University Library - Theses database
Outcomes - New pages created
[edit]Resources
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Wikipedia - Working with Images
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Wikipedia - Writing about people
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Wikipedia - Writing about Places
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Wikipedia - Making Connections
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Editing Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
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Illustrating Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
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Theories: Wikipedia and the production of knowledge
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Evaluating Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
Video guides to editing Wikipedia
[edit]- Wikipedia - It's main policies & guidelines
- Navigating Wikipedia's front page
- How to structure an article on Wikipedia: the Featured Article
- Wikipedia editing in under 25 mins
- How to edit using with Visual Editor Part 1: Creating an Account
- Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.1 Adding Headings
- Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.2 Adding bold & italics
- Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.3 Adding bullet points
- Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.4 Adding links
- Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.1 Adding citations and references
- Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.2 Further practice with citations (DOI and Pubmed IDs)
- Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor:Part 2.3 Adding an image
- Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.4 Adding categories
- Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 3 Creating a new article in the Sandbox
- Editing Wikipedia: Communicating with others using the Talk page and Help Desk
Tutorials on Wikipedia editing
[edit]- Visual Editor User Guide
- manual of style
- Wikipedia cheat sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
- Training for students, a tutorial for beginners
- Beginners' guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
- Five pillars of Wikipedia, philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
- Tutorial
- How to edit a page
- Wiki markup quick reference, PDF version of printed handout
- Article development
- Your first article (using the Article Wizard, if you wish)
- Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources
- Biographies of Living Persons
One page handouts
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Using talk pages
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Choosing an article
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Citing your sources
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Avoiding plagiarism
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Classroom handout - moving out of your sandbox
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Polishing your articles
External links
[edit]Participants - Sign Up Here!
[edit]Prior to the event:
- RSVP: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk
- Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
- No? Create a Wikipedia account
- Yes? Go to Step #2
- Sign up! Add your Wikipedia User Name to this section by clicking the blue button below (follow instructions). Your name will be added to the bottom of this page