Teaching Translation via Wikipedia

This page is still a draft. Feel free to edit it, and use the talk page to discuss ideas and changes. Remember to add categories and tell people where the page is so others can find it and chip in.

This is a page for a new project initiated by Khaled Al-Shehari from the University of Durham (UK) and María Calzada-Pérez from the Universitat Jaume I (Spain).

Please feel free to edit this page if you're interested in being part of this collaborative group around UK-based translation education through Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.

People interested in participating

• Goui Djamel, Associate Professor in Translation (AArabic, French and English) Ouargla University Algeria.
• Toni Sant (WMUK) (talk) 16:52, 14 October 2014 (BST)
• Robin Owain (Wikimedia UK Manager for Wales)
• Khaled Al-Shehari, teacher of Arabic and Translation at the University of Durham (UK).
• Simon McKinnon, teacher of French and Translation at the University of Durham (UK).
• Penny Johnson, teacher of Spanish and Translation at the University of Durham (UK).
• Sally Wagstaffe, teacher of French and Translation at the University of Durham (UK).
• Rocío Baños, Lecturer in Translation at University College London (UK).
• Mari Carmen Maya, teacher of Spanish and Translation at the University of Durham (UK).
• Ali Almanna, Assistant Professor of Translation at the University of Nizwa (Oman).
• Ekrema Shehab, Assistant Professor of Translation at An-Najah National University (Palestine)
• Daniela G. Morabito, teacher of English and Translation at Universidad de Morón (Argentina)
• Elif İrem Koç, translator and interpreter from Boğaziçi University (Turkey)
• Calos M. Ochoa, translator member of ATA (México)
• Shada M Salameh, translator and editor (Arabic-German-English) (Jordan)
• Deborah Chow, translator and PhD student at the University of Malaya (Malaysia)
• Mehmet Şahin, assistant professor of translation and interpreting at Izmir University of Economics (Turkey)
• Jūlija Rastorgujeva, translator, lecturer in Translation at the Baltic International Academy (Latvia)
• Mark Shuttleworth, Senior Lecturer in Translation at University College London (UK).
• Piotr Szymczak, Associate Professor in Translation Studies at Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw (Poland)

Projects

• Khaled Al-Shehari started a project in 2013/14, in which he used Wikipedia articles as the source for the translation assignments his students at Durham were asked to translate into Arabic. The project will continue this year in its second phase. For more information, visit the project's page here. More details on the project, including names of students, teams, titles of articles, translations, etc, can be found on the Arabic page here.

• Penny Johnson and Simon McKinnon extended Khaled Al-Shehari's project above into the English to Spanish part of the Durham MA in Translation. Their project page can be found here. A French to English project is planned for Autumn 2015.

• WMUK is planning to support an event bringing together people interested in teaching translation via Wikipedia sometime in February/March 2015. Please make sure you indicate your interest in this group above, so we can contact you with further details about these plans as soon as they become available. Email educationwikimedia.org.uk if you don't have a wiki username and prefer to give us your contact details that way.
• Piotr Szymczak at Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, regularly uses Polish translations of English Wikipedia articles in translator training, and published an article outlining the advantages of the format (article). Also, creating and editing Wikipedia articles on Translation Studies are part of the credit requirement for his History of Translation Theory course.

Presentations

• Khaled Al-Shehari delivered a presentation at the NU/Durham workshop (Durham University, UK) on 15th September about the the use of Wikipedia in teaching translation. The presentation described an experiment conducted by Khaled on his MA students who study for their MA in Arabic/English Translation and Interpreting.

• Another presentation was delivered by Khaled Al-Shehari at the TEACHING TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING 4, at the University of Lodz in Poland, 28-29 November 2014. For more information about the activity, see the report, including sample slides here.

Planning

• 7 January 2015: Khaled Al-Shehari, Simon McKinnon, Penny Johnson and Sally Wagstaffe met up in Durham to develop ideas for the project in 2015 (including plans for using Wikipedia in teaching Spanish<>English and French<>English translation).

Useful links

• WMUK's Campus Ambassadors' Programme
• Wikipedia Manual
• Wikipedia tutorial
• Wikipedia's licensing
• Wikitext Cheatsheet
• Content translation tool

Relevant Wikipedia templates:

• Userboxes,
• Interwiki copy,
• Educational assignment