The publishing of newly translated articles is an important juncture for anyone supporting Translation workshops/assignments. Although, the Content Translation tool is very good and helps with removing a lot of the headaches of formatting a new Wikipedia page, there are elements that may need checked over. In particular: Does the article contain too much machine […]
Read more "Handle with care – the Wiki aftercare service"Once introduced to the Wikipedia essentials (how to format and the main policies & guidelines), the first 2 hour workshop concludes with a discussion of how to select an article to translate. NB: This is a very important step in our experience and worth spending the extra time on. We found it helped if students […]
Read more "Selecting an article to translate"Wikipedia editathons in a nutshell: Choose a platform for managing the assignment you are happy with. Either a Project Page or the Programs and Events Dashboard. Identify a focus area for the assignment i.e. create a worklist as to which articles are to be created or improved during the assignment and whether there will be […]
Read more "Preparing your own Wikipedia editing workshop"Content Translation Play media Screencast video tutorial to using the Content Translation tool Guide explaining the Content Translation Tool. Content Translation FAQ List of all the different language Wikipedias Statistics about all the different Language Wikipedias Content Translation Stats Wikipedia:Translation – How to translate Video: “The Wikipedia Content Translation Tool reaches 100,000 translations” (short intro […]
Read more "Resources"Trusted more than the BBC, Guardian and Telegraph (Jordan, 2014), English Wikipedia receives some 17 billion pageviews from 500 million visitors each month and is estimated to be 1,500 times more cost effective than traditional ways of spreading information, such as presenting at academic conferences (Heilman, Masukume, Kipersztok, Shafee and Diptanshu, 2017). A 2016 study […]
Read more "Let’s get started"At the University of Edinburgh we have supported Translation workshops for the last 4 semesters. The method we use is to run 2 x 2 hour workshops, run a week apart, at the beginning of the semester. The first 2 hour workshop introduces the students to how to edit Wikipedia (lesson plan and video) and […]
Read more "Wikipedia essentials"An editathon can be anything you want it to be! “An editathon is an organized event where people come together at a scheduled time to create or edit Wikipedia entries on a specific topic. Participants engage in all kinds of collaborative activity around the creation of wiki pages, aided by information specialists including librarians, archivists […]
Read more "What is an editathon?"First thing’s first, you’ll need a Wikipedia account: Getting started is as easy as 1,2,3… Create a Wikipedia account You should ideally create a Wikipedia account at least 4 days before a Wikipedia editing event as new users cannot create new pages on the English Wikipedia until their account has been registered for 4 days […]
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