User:Elmbrigs

Uni Freiburg Translating Wikipedia Class

Published Translations

Progress Table

WEEK	PROGRESS	TIME	CHALLENGES
1	Created account and started translating section of 'Hans Haustein' article with Johanna.	90 min in class, 60 min at home	Getting used to using the Wikipedia editing tools and learning how to put in links etc.
2	We proofread the 'Hans Haustein' translation in class and made necessary adjustments. Started to translate the article 'Karen Köhler' with Johanna.	90 min in class, 90 min at home	Still getting used to Wikipedia's editing tools, sometimes difficult to know whether I should translate the names of German books and institutions or whether I should leave them in German, as some have commonly used English translations and some do not.
3	Finished translating the 'Karen Köhler' article with Johanna, published the article.	90 min in class, 90 min at home	Learning how to transfer references from the German article and adding categories to the end of the finished article, accidentally published the article a bit prematurely, as we should have created a page using one of our user names and '/KarenKöhler' first.
4	Putting last touches to the 'Karen Köhler' article, looking for a new article to translate with Mirjam. Found the article 'Freundschaftsbrücke (Deutschland-Frankreich)' to translate and started translating it	90 min in class, 120 min at home	Finding certain topic specific words and phrases difficult to translate. Also had to do a bit of research on some of the historical and geographical context mentioned in the 'Freundschaftsbrücke (Deutschland-Frankreich)' article to try and make sure that I was interpreting the meaning of certain parts of the article correctly.
5	Continued translating the 'Freundschaftsbrücke (Deutschland-Frankreich)' article with Mirjam	90 min in class, 60 min at home	Same issues as last week.
6	Finished off my part of the 'Freundschaftsbrücke (Deutschland-Frankreich)' article and started proofreading	90 min in class, 90 min at home	Useful to give the article a read through again with fresh eyes as it is easier to spot certain phrases that maybe do not sound so natural English and are more so a direct translation of German.
7	Finished the 'Freundschaftsbrücke (Deutschland-Frankreich)' article, did an extra section of the translation. Published it.	90 min in class, 60 min at home	Was good to finish the Friendship bridge article. I quite enjoyed it as I found that it seemed to be a well written German article which certainly helps when translating! Lots of new words and historical context learned.
8	Started translation the article 'Haus Lichtenstein' with Ilana	90 min in class, 90 min at home	Pretty challenging article as there are many long sentences and lots of new architecture-related vocabulary
9	Continued translating the 'Haus Lichtenstein' article	90 min in class, 90 min at home	The translation is really quite long so it's taking quite a lot of time to get through. Similar challenges as last week.
10	Finished off the 'Haus Lichtenstein' translation, proof read and published it	90 min in class, 90 min at home	Similar challenges as the two previous weeks. Important to give it all a last proofread as this definitely has helped to make the overall article read as more cohesive and natural in English.
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