Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/EUTS Translation Project

The EUTS Translation project 2017 in a nutshell:

When?: Thursday 9 February 2017, 5pm – 6.30pm
Where?: Computing Lab M2a, Appleton Tower, 5pm to 6.30pm
Point of contact: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk / Stinglehammer (talk)

About the event[edit]

An introduction to Wikipedia

Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? Particularly in different language Wikipedias? On Thursday 9 February 2017, the University's Information Services team will run a Wikipedia translate-a-thon for the Edinburgh University Translation Society. Full Wikipedia editing training will be given in the firsts session on 9th February before students decide on the article they would like to translate. Thereafter the following week's session 5pm to 6.30pm on Thursday 16th February will focus purely on beginning to translate the chosen article(s) using Wikipedia's new Content Translation tool.

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).

How do I prepare?[edit]

Sign up for the event
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.

Programme - Thursday 9th February 2017[edit]

5:00pm - 5:15pm: Housekeeping and Welcome
5:15pm – 5:45 pm: Introduction to Wikipedia
5:45pm – 6:30pm: How to edit Wikipedia using the new Visual Editor.

Thereafter, attendees will be invited to search for an article to translate from one language Wikipedia to another. Students should have their chosen article selected for Thursday 16th February 5pm.

Programme - Thursday 16th February 2017[edit]

5:00pm - 5:15pm: Housekeeping and Welcome
5:15pm – 5:45 pm: Introduction to Content Translation
5:45pm – 6:30pm: Getting started with the Translation (practical)

Trainers[edit]

Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh

Class List[edit]

Please put your Wikipedia username in the space below:

The assignment[edit]

15 steps to translation success[edit]

The first step is to Create an account.
In the first session we will run through Wikipedia's main policies and guidelines and how to create a userpage using Wikipedia's new Visual Editor interface.
Next 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.
Once you have decided on the article to translate (and it has been approved by your course tutor) add the article title to the table below along with the languages being translated from and to.
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 Word or Google document entitled: 'YOUR NAME - New translated article - New article title'.
Consult the Content Translation Guide, FAQ and screencast to help you with any issues.
Once you are satisfied with your translation 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).
Congratulations you have created your first page(s) and the assignment.

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 but the Content Translation should add this automatically.

Choosing an article[edit]

Please make sure the chosen article is sufficiently challenging. The article in question will need to be run past myself to avoid issues that arose last semester because some of the original source articles did 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 Thursday 16th February 2017.

Class list
#	Wiki Username	Chosen article(s)	Language translating from	Language Translating to	Newly translated article (to be added after it has been published)
1.	Stinglehammer	Barack Obama	English	Arabic	باراك أوباما
2.	Kaylagaze	L'Album de Bilbo le Hobbit	French	English
3.	Annazhigareva	History of saffron	English	Russian
4.	Bluish.butterfly	Serbia in the Yugoslav Wars	English	Mandarin
5.	Moonie1919	Wife selling (English custom)	English	Bahasa Melayu
6.	Sophieg15	United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda	English	?
7.	Eliseaud	Black American Sign Language	English	French
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Content Translation[edit]

Screencast video tutorial to using the Content Translation tool

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[edit]

Wikipedia - Working with Images
Wikipedia - Writing about people
Wikipedia - Writing about Places
Wikipedia - Making Connections

Editing Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
Illustrating Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
Theories: Wikipedia and the production of knowledge
Evaluating Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)

Video guides to editing Wikipedia[edit]

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[edit]

Using talk pages
Choosing an article
Citing your sources
Avoiding plagiarism
Classroom handout - moving out of your sandbox
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

Don't worry! If you haven't edited Wikipedia before and don't have a Wikipedia User Name yet, we will help you on the day of the event! And remember to have fun!

To sign up for this event: Log in or create an account.

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