Title: Translating articles between different language Wikipedias: the new Content Translation tool
Date: 6 July 2017
Speakers:
- Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh.
Wikimedia’s mission is to be "the sum of all human knowledge". That
Wikipedia has amassed over 43 million articles in over 295 languages in
its short existence is quite incredible and a testament to the
dedication of its community of volunteers. Yet the distribution of
articles in these different language Wikipedias is nowhere near evenly
spread. Wikipedia’s new Content Translation tool offers an impactful
means of sharing open knowledge globally between languages as it brings
up an article on one side of the screen in one language and helps
translate it, paragraph by paragraph, to create the article in a
different language taking all the formatting across to the new article
so a native speaker just has to check to make sure the translation is as
good as it can be. This presentation and practical workshop will
outline the successful models already employed in a Higher Education
context where one editor was able to translate five articles on notable
Women in STEM onto Portuguese Wikipedia in one afternoon and where
twenty-eight Translation Studies MSc students were able to complete the
translation of Wikipedia articles of 4000 words into different language
Wikipedias. In this way, sharing open knowledge between languages and
improving areas of under-representation. - Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in
Residence at the University of Edinburgh.
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Wikipedia in the Classroom - Interview with Edinburgh University's Translation Studies MSc students (excerpt)
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Wikipedia in the Classroom - Interview with Edinburgh University's Translation Studies MSc students