Teaching Translation via Wikipedia

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This is a page for a new project initiated by [w:User:Kshehari Khaled Al-Shehari] from the [w:University_of_Durham University of Durham] (UK) and [w:User:Mcptrad María Calzada-Pérez] from the [w:James_I_University 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

• Toni Sant (WMUK) (talk) 16:52, 14 October 2014 (BST)
• Robin Owain (Wikimedia UK Manager for Wales)
• [:en:User:Kshehari Khaled Al-Shehari], teacher of Arabic and Translation at the [w:University_of_Durham University of Durham] (UK).
• [:en:User:SGMckinnon Simon McKinnon], teacher of French and Translation at the [w:University_of_Durham University of Durham] (UK).
• [:en:User:Pennyjohnson7777 Penny Johnson], teacher of Spanish and Translation at the [w:University_of_Durham University of Durham] (UK).
• [:en:User:SWagstaffe Sally Wagstaffe], teacher of French and Translation at the [w:University_of_Durham University of Durham] (UK).
• Rocío Baños, Lecturer in Translation at [:en:University_College_London University College London] (UK).
• Mari Carmen Maya, teacher of Spanish and Translation at the [w:University_of_Durham University of Durham] (UK).
• [:en:User:Ali_Almanna Ali Almanna], Assistant Professor of Translation at the [:en:University_of_Nizwa University of Nizwa] (Oman).
• add your name here if you're interested...

Projects

• [:en:User:Kshehari 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.

• [:en:User:Pennyjohnson7777 Penny Johnson] and [:en:User:SGMckinnon Simon McKinnon] extended [:en:User:Kshehari 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.

Presentations

• [:en:User:Kshehari 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 [:en:User:Kshehari 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.

Future Events

• A 4-hour workshop on the use of Wikipedia in teaching translation in addition to a presentation on the 2nd cycle of an action research project on the use of Wikipedia in teaching translation both will be delivered by [:en:User:Kshehari Khaled Al-Shehari] at the 5th IATIS International Conference, due to take place in Belo Horizonte, 7-10 July 2015, with the title of "Innovation Paths in Translation and Intercultural Studies. More information will be provided when the conference programme is published.

Planning

• 7 January 2015: [:en:User:Kshehari Khaled Al-Shehari], [:en:User:SGMckinnon Simon McKinnon], [:en:User:Pennyjohnson7777 Penny Johnson] and [:en:User:SWagstaffe 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
• [w:Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual Wikipedia Manual]
• [w:Wikipedia:Tutorial Wikipedia tutorial]
• [w:Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia Wikipedia's licensing]
• [w:Wikipedia:Cheatsheet Wikitext Cheatsheet]

Relevant Wikipedia templates:

• [w:Wikipedia:Userboxes Userboxes],
• [w:Template:Interwiki copy Interwiki copy],
• [w:Template:Educational assignment Educational assignment]