Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Translation Studies - 2020/2021 Semester One

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University of Edinburgh edit-a-thon

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? 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).

We Can Edit

How do I prepare?[edit]

Further reading[edit]

The main policies and guidelines can be found at the following pages:

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]

  1. The first step is to Create an account.
  2. 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.
  3. 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).
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  6. 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.
  7. Go to the Content Translation tool in the Contributions menu.
  8. Click Start a new translation.
  9. Input the languages you are translating from and to.
  10. Input the source article title.
  11. Click Start translation.
  12. 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'.
  13. Consult the Content Translation Guide, FAQ and screencast to help you with any issues.
  14. 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.
  15. 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]

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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).
  6. 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.

Class list
# Wiki Username Chosen article(s) Language translating from Language Translating to Newly translated article Peer feedback received (Y/N)
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
  1. 真实科幻小说
  2. Draft being reviewed
  3. Update 15/2 - draft to be resubmitted for review.
 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
  1. /北部玫瑰鹦鹉
    Article to be restored.
  2. 2nd draft being reviewed
  3. Updated 15/2 - article published.
 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
  1. 2018 Nobel Peace Prize
  2. 2019 Nobel Peace Prize
  3. 2020 Nobel Peace Prize
 English Chinese
  1. 2018年诺贝尔和平奖
  2. 2019年诺贝尔和平奖
  3. 2020年诺贝尔和平奖
 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
  1. Pennsylvania_State_Capitol
  2. دانية_شافعي
  3. روض_الجواء
  1. English
  2. Arabic
  3. Arabic
  1. Arabic
  2. English
  3. English
 مبنى الكابيتول في ولاية بنسلفانيا n/a
32 Kangqian Dai Eliza Acton English Chinese Draft page submitted for review


Update 15/2 - Article published here :)

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
  1. 二条為子
  2. 蔵書印
 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]

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.

  • 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]

Suggested sources:[edit]

General[edit]
  • DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more.
News sources[edit]
Theses databases[edit]

Outcomes - New pages created[edit]

Resources[edit]

Join us for the event!
  • Wikipedia - Working with Images
    Wikipedia - Working with Images
  • Wikipedia - Writing about people
    Wikipedia - Writing about people
  • Wikipedia - Writing about Places
    Wikipedia - Writing about Places
  • Wikipedia - Making Connections
    Wikipedia - Making Connections
  • Editing Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
    Editing Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
  • Illustrating Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
    Illustrating Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
  • Theories: Wikipedia and the production of knowledge
    Theories: Wikipedia and the production of knowledge
  • Evaluating Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
    Evaluating Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)

Video guides to editing Wikipedia[edit]

Tutorials on Wikipedia editing[edit]

One page handouts[edit]

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

External links[edit]

Participants - Sign Up Here![edit]

Prior to the event:

  1. RSVP: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk
  2. Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
    No? Create a Wikipedia account
    Yes? Go to Step #2
  3. 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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