The EUTS Translation project 2017 in a nutshell:
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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).
The main policies and guidelines can be found at the following pages:
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.
Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh
Please put your Wikipedia username in the space below:
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.
Articles to be settled on by Thursday 16th February 2017.
# | Wiki Username | Chosen article(s) | Language translating from | Language Translating to | Newly translated article (to be added after it has been published) |
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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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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.
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The EUTS Translation project 2017 in a nutshell:
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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).
The main policies and guidelines can be found at the following pages:
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.
Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh
Please put your Wikipedia username in the space below:
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.
Articles to be settled on by Thursday 16th February 2017.
# | Wiki Username | Chosen article(s) | Language translating from | Language Translating to | Newly translated article (to be added after it has been published) |
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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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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.
Prior to the event: