The Translation Studies MSc project 2020/2021 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? Commencing in September 2020 and concluding on Friday 15 January 2021, the University's Information Services team will run a Wikipedia translate-a-thon.
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:
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.
Articles to be settled on by 5pm on Monday 12th October 2020.
# | Wiki Username | Chosen article(s) | Language translating from | Language Translating to | Newly translated article | Peer feedback received (Y/N) |
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1. | Example user Stinglehammer |
Example source article Barack Obama |
English | Arabic | باراك أوباما | n/a |
2. | Zhang Yitong | Reception history of Jane Austen | English | Chinese | 简·奥斯汀的接受史 | Yes |
3. | Yutian Chen | Little Fishing Creek | English | Chinese | 小钓鱼溪 | Yes |
4. | Wang Shu | Alma Vessels John, civil rights activist. | English | Chinese | 阿尔玛·维瑟尔斯·约翰 | Yes |
5. | Tian Yang | Tryon Creek | English | Chinese | 特赖恩河 | Yes |
6. | Lan Yushang | Elizabeth Raffald - English author, innovator and entrepreneur who played an important role in the development of the wedding cake. | English | Chinese | 伊丽莎白·拉法尔德 | Yes |
7. | Luyao Wang | Taiko, a broad range of Japanese percussion instruments | English | Chinese |
太鼓 (Draft needing restored/corrected) Update 15/2 - draft to be reviewed. |
Yes |
8. | DONG Nan | Trump wall | English | Chinese | 特朗普隔离墙 | Yes |
9. | Sam Ho | 香港太空館 | Chinese | English | Hong Kong Space Museum | Yes |
10. | Xue Zhou | Evelyn Waugh | English | Chinese |
伊夫林·沃 Update 15/2 - draft to be improved |
Yes |
11. | Zhenya Li | 韩国向中国移交志愿军遗骸 | Chinese | English |
South Korea handed over the remains of Chinese People 's Volunteers Army to China Update 15/2 - Citations to be added. |
Yes |
12. | Huichao Wang | Cortinarius violaceus fungi | English | Chinese | 紫丝绒膜菇 | Yes |
13. | Qi Zhang | Authentic Science Fiction (periodical) | English | Chinese | Yes | |
14. | Jingwen Li | Liberty Bell | English | Chinese | 自由钟 | Yes |
15 | Kaile Liu | Robert Burnell (one of the most important royal officials in 13th cent. England) | English | Chinese | 罗伯特·伯内尔 | Yes |
16 | Nan Gu | Walt Disney World Railroad | English | Chinese | 迪士尼世界铁路 | Yes |
17 | Jinxuan Lei | Nature fakers controversy | English | Chinese | 自然骗徒之争 | Yes |
18 | Fuqiang ZHAO | Linguistic Society of America | English | Chinese | 美国语言学会 | Yes |
19 | Dan Zhang | Northern rosella (bird) | English | Chinese |
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Yes |
20 | Yang Ming | Mozart family grand tour | English | Chinese | Update 15/2 - article to published to Personal Draft. | Yes |
21 | Jie Li | Ben's Chili Bowl (restaurant) | English | Chinese | 本氏辣酱热狗店 | Yes |
22 | Wenxin Cheng | Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele - large oil-on-oak panel painting completed by Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck | English | Chinese |
圣母和圣婴与教士范德帕勒 Article to be restored. Update 11/2 - submitted for AFC review Update 15/2 - Published here! :) |
Yes |
23 | Yujie Liu | Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele - large oil-on-oak panel painting completed by Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck | English | Chinese |
圣母和圣婴与教士范德帕勒 Article to be restored. Update 11/2 - submitted for AFC review Update 15/2 - Published here! :) |
Yes |
24 | Binjie Xiang | Indian Camp is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway | English | Chinese | 印第安人营地 | Yes |
25 | Tong | Portrait of Mariana of Austria - a 1652–53 oil-on-canvas painting by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age | English | Chinese | Update 15/2 - Draft to be prepared for review. | Yes |
26 | Zhao Kexin | English | Chinese | Yes | ||
27 | Emily Owen | 浅虫温泉 | Japanese | English | Asamushi Onsen (Japanese:(浅虫温泉) is the site of a hot spring, on the eastern edge of the city of Aomori in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. | Yes |
28 | Larissa Webster | Marcha Estatal Contra las Violencias Machistas | Spanish | English | Spanish National March in Opposition to Male Violence(s) Against Women | Yes |
29 | Shan Nie | The Green Child | English | Chinese | 绿孩子 | Yes |
30 | Yiting Dai | Marvin Gaye (song) | English | Chinese | 马文·盖伊_(歌曲) | Yes |
31 | NoraAlbawardi |
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مبنى الكابيتول في ولاية بنسلفانيا | n/a | |
32 | Kangqian Dai | Eliza Acton | English | Chinese | Draft page submitted for review | Yes |
33 | Muzhi Feng | Eliza Acton | English | Chinese |
Draft page submitted for review Update 15/2 - Article published here :) |
Yes |
34 | Katherine Laidlaw | Malgven | French | English | Malgven | Yes |
35 | Marie Boyum | Fun Home is a 2006 graphic memoir by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel. | English | Norwegian | Fun Home | Yes |
36 | Ailin Li | Mozart family grand tour | English | Chinese | Update 15/2 - article to published to Personal Draft. | Yes |
37 | Li Li | Development of Grand Theft Auto V | English | Chinese |
Draft page on Chinese Wikipedia - awaiting AFC review Update 15/2 - AFC rejected. Proofreading reqd. |
Yes |
38 | Danyang Gao | Gather Together in My Name (1974) is a memoir by American writer and poet Maya Angelou. It is the second book in Angelou's series of seven autobiographies. The book begins immediately following the events described in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. | English | Chinese |
Draft article on Chinese Wikipedia - been reviewed. Corrections to be made. Update 15/2 - Corrections and proofreading reqd still. |
Yes |
39 | Siwan Wu | Birthday-number effect | English | Chinese | Emailed 22nd January to chase submission. Update 15/2 - Article published here :) |
Yes |
40 | Sixian Qi | Reception history of Jane Austen | English | Chinese | 简·奥斯汀的接受史 | Yes |
41 | Riqueza H | Grand Jument is a mare of gigantic size which serves as a mount for the giants in several works of the Renaissance. Stemming from medieval traditions, themselves inspired by Celtic mythology, it appears in The large and inestimable chronicles of the great and enormous giant Gargantua, written in 1532. | French | English | The Great Mare | Yes |
42 | Evelina Mihailescu | Japanese | English | Emailed 22 Jan to chase submissions. Update 15/2 - Referencing to be fixed and articles published. |
Tba | |
43 | Ed Jefferson | A-bus | Danish | English | A-bus (Copenhagen) | Yes |
44 | Yanyu Liu | Kratos (God of War) | English | Chinese |
Draft page on Chinese Wikipedia Working on 2nd draft Update 15/2 - Article to be redrafted here. |
Yes |
45 | Huang Mengxiao | Digital media use and mental health | English | Chinese | 数字媒体使用与心理健康 | Yes |
46 | Bowen He | The Unconquered (1940 play) | English | Chinese | 不败者_(1940年戏剧) | Yes |
47 | Luyao Xu | The Blind Leading the Blind is a painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, completed in 1568. | English | Chinese | 盲人引领盲人 | Yes |
48 | Yue Li | Arts in the Philippines | English | Chinese |
Draft article on Chinese Wikipedia - been reviewed Update 15/2 - corrections to be made and article needs resubmitted for review. |
Yes |
49 | Alex Li | Meaning of Life (album) | English | Chinese | 生活真谛(凯莉·克拉克森的第八张专辑) | Yes |
50 | Ruolin Wu | Golding Bird(1814–1854) was a British medical doctor and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He became a great authority on kidney diseases and was innovative in the field of the medical use of electricity, designing much of his own equipment. | English | Chinese | Emailed 22 Jan to chase submission Update 15/2 - Article in draft space. References to be fixed so article can be submitted for AFC review. |
Yes |
51 | GAOXINGJIAN | Bobby Shmurda | English | Chinese |
Draft article on Chinese Wikipedia - reviewed. Corrections to be made. Update 15/2 - corrections to be made so article can be resubmitted for review. |
Awaited |
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: