Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Translation Studies - 2022/2023 Semester One

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University of Edinburgh edit-a-thon

About the project[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 October 2022 and concluding in January 2023, 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.

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Upcoming Wikipedia translation workshops[edit]

Translating a Wikipedia article is best achieved by attending the earlier workshops (2nd/9th Nov) to make sure a) you receive the technical instructions on best practice and b) can ask questions related to your own article selection as all will be different. Please bring a laptop and charger so you can begin translation work.

  • 2nd November 3pm-5pm in LG.07, 40 George Square. All class welcome. Recommended.
  • 9th November 3pm-5pm in LG.07, 40 George Square. All class welcome. Please note: This may be cancelled due to train strikes.
  • 15th November 1pm-3pm in 1.07, Main Library, 30 George Square. Only room for 20-30 students.
  • 16th November 3pm-5pm in 1.07, Main Library, 30 George Square. Only room for 20-30 students.
  • 23rd November 3pm-5pm in LG.07, 40 George Square. All class welcome.

Assignment scope and dates[edit]

  • 2,000-2,500 words to be translated from one language Wikipedia to another. This is per student so you can work in pairs/groups also.
  • Article choices should be well-referenced. Inline citations peppering all the way through the article.
  • Article selections must be added to Excel sheet AND emailed to your language tutor for approval.
  • Email by Monday 31 October 5pm so that we can finally settle on article choices.
  • Upload source article (with word count) and translated article (with word count) in MS Word format to Learn by 5pm on Monday 19th December 2022.
  • Peer review of another student's work to emailed to student and myself by 5pm on Friday 6th January 2023. Please consider commenting/annotating the student's full translation in MS Word/Google Doc.
  • Article to be published to target Wikipedia w/c 9th January 2023 and no later than 5pm on Friday 13th January 2023.

How do I prepare?[edit]

Getting started[edit]

Further reading[edit]

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

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]

  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 Monday 31st October 2022. 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 2,000-2,500 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 = 2,454 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. Your article is to be peer reviewed by another student and peer reviews are to be emailed to ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk by Friday 6th January 2023.
  14. Aim to publish on the target language Wikipedia w/c Monday 9th January 2023 and no later than 5pm on Friday 13th January 2023 so that the project is finally concluded on Friday 13th January 2023. 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 around 2500 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 around 2500 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 19 December 2022.

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 2000-2500 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 challenge yourself - work in a different language direction/pairing if possible this semester or with a different student or on a completely different topic from last time.
  3. Make sure the topic you work on is of interest to you and maybe of interest/importance to readers of the target Wikipedia. Use these two weeks until mid October to assess Wikipedia's current content and see where you would like to contribute and do the most good.
  4. Consider the under-representation of topics related to postcolonial theory and the Black Lives Matter movement as topic areas to work on. Students on the University History Society have also worked on articles related to Scotland's links with slavery here. Email Dr. Hephzibah Israel if you are require suggestions or advice on this theme.
  5. WikiProjects on English Wikipedia have Assessment tables which list the best quality articles related to their project area. e.g. Wikiproject Sociology, WikiProject Human Rights, WikiProject Black Lives Matter, WikiProject African diaspora
  6. 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.
  7. If neither of these high quality articles meets your interest then next try A class articles then B class articles then C class articles. The subject matter, structuring, and coherence of the article may be less good but it is the referencing that is the most important factor when considering these articles.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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).
  11. 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 no later than 5pm on Monday 31st October 2022 and published no later than 5pm on Friday 13th January 2023.

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. Redspider17 Social thriller English Spanish Thriller social Yes
3. Emfupa10 Beowulf and Middle-earth English Spanish Beowulf y la Tierra Media Yes
4. Yilanna Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed English Chinese 吕底亚的国王坎道列斯命令大臣巨吉斯偷窥他的妻子 Yes
5. 洗衣服太累了 Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball English Chinese 为化妆舞会做准备 Yes
6. gyy-158 锅巴菜 Chinese English Guoba Cuisine Yes
7. Guoxhdlmsj Champagne wine region English Chinese 香槟产区 Yes
8. Xiiialejandro,乔什么乔 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film) English Chinese 魔街理髮師 (2007年電影) Yes
9. DemainR Vietnam and the World Bank English Chinese 越南与世界银行 Yes
10. ParisChen0525 History of Burger King English Chinese 汉堡王历史 Yes
11. Vee1116,Irene310 September Morn English Chinese 九月清晨 Yes
12. Shieh Meng,Yueyun Liu,12fallstown Nancy Mitford English Chinese 南希·米特福德 Yes
13. Lilcake811 Crime and Punishment English Chinese 罪与罚 Yes
14. User:Matstiles 1860 Boden Professor of Sanskrit election English French Élection de 1860 du Professeur Boden de sanskrit Yes
15. User:Ahouicestaht 1860 Boden Professor of Sanskrit election English French Élection de 1860 du Professeur Boden de sanskrit Yes
16. Shuntai Zhang The Legend of Maula Jatt English Chinese ------- Yes
17 Lilian233 History of Burger King English Chinese 汉堡王历史 Yes
18. TandIRT Honours of Scotland English Chinese 苏格兰荣耀 Yes
19. GiuseppeSU Yusuf I of Granada English Chinese 优素福一世 Yes
20. Chelsea229,SixteenRabbits Romney Literary Society English Chinese 罗姆尼文学协会 Yes
21. MIMIZI1234 Wong Fu Productions English Chinese 王夫制作 Yes
22. Jeffee123 The May Pamphlet English Chinese 五月文集 Yes
23. User:Cynthiadudu and Celtra Social history of viruses English Chinese 病毒社会史 Yes
24. Wyh1019 and Elphie9li Camas Pocket Gopher English Chinese Awaited - Due by Fri 20th Jan 2023 Yes - both received now
25. User:JiayuPeng Metzengerstein English Chinese ------- -------
26. User:Boki666 Nansen's Fram expedition English Chinese 南森的弗拉姆号探险 Yes
27. Rechargedbaby Nansen's Fram expedition English Chinese 南森的弗拉姆号探险 Yes
28. Katherine DING,Aspoonofsugar New York Produce Exchange English Chinese 纽约农产品交易所 Yes
29. HathawayDouzi Resurrectionists in the United Kingdom English Chinese 英国的盗尸者们 Yes
30. ZOEyyyyjz Corry Tendeloo English Chinese Late Yes
31. Starkogni and Grepintaa Australia at the Winter Olympics English Chinese 冬季奥林匹克运动会澳大利亚代表团 Yes
32. WTHAUY Carrie Goldberg English Chinese 卡丽·戈德堡 Yes
33. 222Stella The_Bread-Winners English Chinese 养家人 - unreferenced content so will need amended. Yes
34. Mokapedia A Beautiful Crime English Chinese 美丽的罪行 Yes
35. RIM24ED Death of Mark Saunders English Arabic مقتل_مارك_سوندرز Yes, received 20/1/2023
36. SHOWNly Education in Medieval Scotland English Arabic التعليم_في_اسكتلندا_في_العصور_الوسطى Yes, received 12/01
37. ItsRachel1 Maria Rundell English Chinese 玛丽亚·朗德尔 Yes
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External links[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

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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