Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Howard University/Portuguese 040 (Fall 2019)
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- Course name
- Portuguese 040
- Institution
- Howard University
- Instructor
- Eliseo Jacob
- Wikipedia Expert
- Shalor (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Foreign Language
- Course dates
- 2019-09-03 00:00:00 UTC – 2019-11-22 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 5
PORT 040 is the fifth course in the Howard University Portuguese program. This is a
three-credit course. Students in this course will have the opportunity to develop
speaking and listening skills to a high intermediate/advanced level through online
conversations with university students from Brazil. Through these online meetings,
students will be able to develop their writing skills in Portuguese by receiving peer
feedback from the Brazilian students. While students will continue to develop their
speaking and writing skills, additional assignments will complement the course’s theme
of Afro-Brazilian culture. In order to further develop their proficiency in Portuguese and learn about Brazil , students will have the opportunity to select a Wikipedia article in Portuguese to translate into English as their final project.
| Student | Assigned | Reviewing |
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| Sydneylws |
Timeline
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 11 September 2019 | Friday, 13 September 2019
- Assignment - Introduction to the Wikipedia project
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
- Editing Wikipedia pages 1–5
- Evaluating Wikipedia
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 16 September 2019 | Wednesday, 18 September 2019 | Friday, 20 September 2019
- Assignment - Practicing the basics
- Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you.
- It's time to dive into Wikipedia. Below, you'll find the first set of online trainings you'll need to take. New modules will appear on this timeline as you get to new milestones. Be sure to check back and complete them! Incomplete trainings will be reflected in your grade.
- When you finish the trainings, practice by introducing yourself to a classmate on that classmate’s Talk page.
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 23 September 2019 | Wednesday, 25 September 2019 | Friday, 27 September 2019
- Assignment - Choose an article
- Choose two articles (a first choice, and a backup) to translate into English. Post the article links on your talk page, and submit them to the instructor for review.
- Once your instructor has approved one or both of your choices, finalize your choice of which article to translate.
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 30 September 2019 | Wednesday, 2 October 2019 | Friday, 4 October 2019
- Assignment - Begin translating
- Copy your article from the target-language Wikipedia into your sandbox.
- Begin to translate your work.
Supplementary trainings:
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 7 October 2019 | Wednesday, 9 October 2019 | Friday, 11 October 2019
- Assignment - Translation
- Be ready to discuss your progress translating your article.
- Carefully note the original citations for facts in your source article.
- If an original source doesn't seem reliable, feel free to omit it from your translation.
Handouts: Citing Sources and Avoid Plagiarism
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 14 October 2019 | Wednesday, 16 October 2019 | Friday, 18 October 2019
- Assignment - Translation
- Be ready to discuss your progress translating your article.
- Carefully note the original citations for facts in your source article.
- If an original source doesn't seem reliable, feel free to omit it from your translation.
Handouts: Citing Sources and Avoid Plagiarism
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Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 21 October 2019 | Wednesday, 23 October 2019 | Friday, 25 October 2019
- Assignment - Translation and fact-checking
- Continue to translate your work.
- Introduce citations from English-language texts that support the facts stated in your translated article. Adjust your translation if necessary.
- For each sentence you translate, make a note of the sources used in the original article. Are they good sources? Do they really say what the Wikipedia article describes?
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 28 October 2019 | Wednesday, 30 October 2019 | Friday, 1 November 2019
- In class - Publish your work
- Discussion of fact-checking translated work, finding English-language sources.
- Assignment - Publish your work
- Move sandbox articles into main space.
- If you are expanding an existing article, it's time to add your revised translation (including English sources, when available). Copy your edit into the article. If you are making many small edits, save after each edit before you make the next one. Do NOT paste over the entire existing article, or large sections of the existing article. Be sure to check the article's talk page and respond to suggestions from Wikipedians. Don't panic if your edits are removed or changed! Discuss it civilly on the article's talk page, and make a note of it for your report or presentation about your editing experience.
- If you are creating a new article, do NOT copy and paste your text, or there will be no record of your work history. Follow instruction on the "Moving out of your sandbox" handout.
- In your first edit to the article namespace, include a link of the source article (i.e., the article you translated) in the "edit summary" before hitting "save."
- Copy the code {{Translated page|es|Page Title}} to the bottom of the Wikipedia article, replacing es with the language code of the language you a translating from and replacing Page Title with the title of the source page.
Handout: Moving out of your sandbox
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 4 November 2019 | Wednesday, 6 November 2019 | Friday, 8 November 2019
- Assignment - Revise and review
- Individual presentations about your translation process, how you selected your articles, and your observations about how this differs from a traditional translation assignment.
Week 11
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 13 November 2019 | Friday, 15 November 2019
- Milestones
Students have finished all their work on Wikipedia that will be considered for grading.
Week 12
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 18 November 2019 | Wednesday, 20 November 2019 | Friday, 22 November 2019
- Assignment - Final Review & Reflection
Students will review each others' projects and provide final reflections on what they learned about research and writing.