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University of Edinburgh edit-a-thon

About the event

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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 Friday 23rd September 2016, the University's Information Services team will run a Wikipedia translate-a-thon. Full Wikipedia editing training will be given in the morning before students decide on the article they would like to translate. Thereafter the following week's session will focus purely on translating the chosen article(s).

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?

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Further reading

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

Programme - Week 1 (Friday 23rd September)

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  • 11:00am - 11:15am: Housekeeping and Welcome
  • 11:15 am – 12:30 pm: Wikipedia training
  • 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm: Selecting an article to translate.

Programme - Week 2 (Friday 30th September)

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  • 11:00am - 11:15am: Housekeeping and Welcome
  • 11:15 am – 1:00 pm: Translating the chosen article.

Trainers

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Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh

Class List

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Please put your Wikipedia username in the space below:

  1. Hoenir1
  2. LewisAlunWilliams
  3. EmilieKi
  4. Roxana.franga
  5. Norah.Huzaim
  6. Kateplum07
  7. JessieSHuang
  8. Jaccon Pauline
  9. YIFAN ZHAO
  10. Raghadalhabyan
  11. Bixuan Chen
  12. Handedemirhan
  13. Zhangjing Lou
  14. YINGSHAN YUE
  15. Cococui
  16. JLD1751
  17. XieTingting
  18. Sariputrahan
  19. Iraklisp
  20. Lorezunalv
  21. S1235872
  22. Yuminlin
  23. Qingshanzhuhun
  24. Huancarrie
  25. Ayabelinda
  26. Kingsley19941010
  27. Zilingbai
  28. Maxliu1993
  29. Matthewsher

The assignment

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15 steps to translation success

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  1. The first step is to Create an account.
  2. 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.
  3. 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).
  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. 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.
  6. The assignment must be in excess of 4000 words (& 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 = 4054 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. 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). If your article was not over 4000 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 4000 words, congratulations you have created your first page(s) and the assignment.

One final step

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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

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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).
  4. 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

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Articles to be settled on by Friday 30th September. Update 02/10/2016 - This has now been extended to Friday 7th October 2016. Please submit details of your article(s) to be translated (including languages from & to) to ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk by 5pm on Friday 7th Oct.

Class list
# Wiki Username Chosen article(s) Language translating from Language Translating to Newly translated article
1. Stinglehammer Barack Obama English Arabic باراك أوباما
2. Raghadalhabyan الأدب العربي الحديث Arabic English Modern Arabic literature
3. YINGSHAN YUE Long-toed salamander English Chinese 长趾钝口螈
4. XieTingting
  1. The Portrait of a Lady
  2. The Wings of the Dove
  3. La Curee
 English Chinese
  1. 贵妇画像
  2. 鸽之翼_(小说)
  3. 贪欲的角逐
5. Kingsley19941010 Crime in New York City English Chinese Not yet published.
6. JLD1751
  1. Osterreichisch-Ungarische Nordpolexpedition
  2. Frankfurter Hauserkampf
  3. Deutsche National hymne
 German English Not yet published.
7. Zhangjing Lou United States Presidential Election Debates English Chinese 美国总统大选辩论
8. EmilieKi Romanticism in Scotland English French Romantisme écossais
9. Jaccon Pauline Romanticism in Scotland English French Romantisme écossais
10. Hoenir1
  1. Various books by Jens Bjorneboe
  2. Johan Augustinussen
  3. Lerchendal gard
 Norwegian (bokmal) English Not yet published.
11. LewisAlunWilliams 丸目長恵 Japanese English
  1. Okuri-inu - a kind of yokai: a class of supernatural monsters, spirits and demons in Japanese folklore.
  2. Marume Nagayoshi - a famous Japanese swordsman.
  3. Rōjinbi - A demonic flame that supposedly appears deep in the mountains on rainy nights.
12. Norah.Huzaim ديةمهند أبو Arabic English Muhannad Abu Diah
13. Maxliu1993
  1. Cosmetics in Ancient Rome
  2. Japanese street fashion
 English Chinese
  1. 古罗马化妆习俗
  2. 日本街头时尚
14. Zilingbai
  1. The Penelopiad
  2. 北宋 - 维基百科，自由的百科全书
  1. English
  2. Chinese
  1. Chinese
  2. English
  1. 佩涅罗珀_(小说)
  2. The Northern Song Dynasty
15 Bixuan Chen
  1. The Book of Hours
  2. Letters to a Young Poet
  3. The Waves
  4. Flush: A Biography
 English Chinese
  1. 时刻之书
  2. 致一位年轻诗人的信
  3. 海浪_(弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫作品)
  4. 奔流：一部传记
16 Roxana.franga Anarchism in Chile Spanish English Anarchism in Chile
17 JessieSHuang Harry Potter influences and analogues English Chinese 哈利·波特的创作灵感来源及相似作品
18 YIFAN ZHAO
  1. Art for Art's sake
  2. 唐宋與吐蕃關係史
  1. English
  2. Chinese
  1. Chinese
  2. English
  1. 为艺术而艺术
  2. The History of Relationship Development Between Imperial China and Tibetan Regime In Tang and Song Dynasty
19 Lorezunalv Anarchism in Chile Spanish English Anarchism in Chile
20 Cococui
  1. Ichabod Crane
  2. Charlie Chaplin filmography
 English Chinese
  1. 伊卡博德·克兰
  2. 查理·卓别林影片辑
21 Iraklisp Ada Lovelace English Greek Άντα Λάβλεϊς
22 Handedemirhan Cultural studies English Turkish Kültürel_Çalışmalar
23 S1235872 Anarchism in Chile Spanish English Anarchism in Chile
24 Ayabelinda Dick Turpin English Japanese ディック・ターピン
25 Qingshanzhuhun
  1. Kray Twins
  2. 1994年北一女中學生自殺事件
  1. English
  2. Chinese
  1. Chinese
  2. English
  1. 科雷兄弟
  2. Suicides of Two Girls of Taipei First Girls' High School in 1994
26 Yuminlin Self-efficacy English Chinese #自我效能
27 Sariputrahan
  1. Credentialism and educational inflation
  2. More popular than Jesus
 English Chinese
  1. 文凭主义及教育通胀
  2. 比耶稣更受欢迎
28 Huancarrie
  1. The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (Universal Orlando Resort)
  2. Christianity in Morocco
 English Chinese
  1. 哈利波特的魔法世界 (奧蘭多環球影城)
  2. 摩洛哥基督教
29 Matthewsher
  1. Gypsy Jazz
  2. Chuck Schuldiner
 English Chinese
  1. 吉普賽爵士
  2. 查克·舒爾迪那
30 Kateplum07 Reactive attachment disorder English Chinese Not yet published.

Articles to be created

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TBD.

Articles to be improved

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TBD.

Content Translation

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Screencast video tutorial to using the Content Translation tool
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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.

  • 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

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Suggested sources:

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General
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  • DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more.
News sources
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Theses databases
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Outcomes - New pages created

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Resources

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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

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Tutorials on Wikipedia editing

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One page handouts

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  • 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
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Participants - Sign Up Here!

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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 #3
  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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