User:Allinportuguese/French to English Translation

This is the course page for a French to English translation assignment at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

Week 1: Translation essentials

 * Overview of the course
 * Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
 * Wikipedia is a community: a brief overview of its rules, expectations, and etiquette
 * The differences between English Wikipedia and other Wikipedias
 * Handout: Editing Wikipedia, Using Talk Pages (available in print or online from the Wiki Education Foundation)


 * Create a Wikipedia account and a user page, and add your user name to the list of students on the bottom of this course page.
 * Complete the Student Training for Translation Assignments.
 * Look through the help page about translating on Wikipedia, focusing on the section "How to translate"

Week 2: Choose an article

 * Choose two articles (a first choice, and a backup) to translate into English. These should exist on the French Wikipedia but not on the English Wikipedia. Post the article links on your talk page, and submit them to the instructor for review.
 * Though you should not feel limited to this selection, here are some possibilities identified by Ian, one of the WikiEdu Content Experts:
 * fr:Néolithique du Proche-Orient
 * fr:Culture de Pengtoushan
 * fr:Préhistoire de la Chine
 * fr:Cultures de Qujialing et Shijiahe
 * fr:Préhistoire de la Crète
 * fr:Préhistoire de Malte
 * fr:Occupation romaine de la Germanie sous Auguste
 * fr:Sanctuaire d'Isis et de Mater Magna
 * fr:Chaussée romaine de Bavay à Cologne
 * fr:Marseille antique
 * fr:Étang de Cazaux et de Sanguinet (this one exists in English, but is just a 2-sentence stub)
 * fr:Siège d'Arles (507-508)
 * fr:Arles sous le gouvernement des podestats
 * fr:Opéra en France sous le règne de Louis XIV
 * fr:Histoire de la route en France au XVIe siècle
 * fr:Histoire de la Savoie de 1792 à 1815
 * fr:Histoire de la police française
 * fr:Lieutenance générale de Louis-Philippe d'Orléans
 * fr:Lille pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale
 * fr:Planification en France
 * fr:Reconstruction en France et en Belgique après la Première Guerre mondiale
 * fr:Histoire de la Savoie de 1860 à 1914
 * Once your instructor has approved one or both of your choices, finalize your choice of which article to translate.


 * Copy your article from the target-language Wikipedia into your sandbox.
 * Begin to translate your work.

Week 3: Translation

 * Be ready to start translating your approved article in a sandbox.


 * Continue to translate your work.

Week 4: Publish your work

 * Discussion of fact-checking translated work, finding English-language sources.


 * Move sandbox articles into main space.
 * Do NOT copy and paste your text, or there will be no record of your work history. Follow these instructions on how to move your work.
 * In your first edit to the article namespace, include a link of the source article (i.e., the article you translated) in the "edit summary" before hitting "save."
 * Copy the code to the bottom of the Wikipedia article.
 * Complete your assignment report based on the grading guidelines below.

Week 5: Revise and review

 * Individual presentations about your translation process, how you selected your articles, and your observations about how this differs from a traditional translation assignment.


 * Students have finished all their work on Wikipedia that will be considered for grading.

Additional resources for translating Wikipedia
There are a number of translation resources available on Wikipedia which are not listed in the timeline above but which nonetheless may be very useful to you:
 * WikiProject Echo is a group of users interested in translation on Wikipedia. Their project page contains a great deal of resources for translating in general, including several that are language-specific. For example, there is a list of French language resources.
 * A few Wikipedia users have expressed an interest in helping others with translation tasks. You can find lists of French translators at Translators available and Translation/French/Translators.
 * For help finding an article which does not yet exist in English:
 * Not in the Other Language is a very useful tool which can help you to find articles in one language but not another. You may have noticed Wikipedia has a categorizing system. At the bottom of almost every page you can see a list of categories to which that page belongs. This tool works with those categories. It compares the articles in one category to articles in the same category in a different languages, outputting a list of articles that don't overlap. It also allows you to specify category "depth", which means the number of subcategories to search. Be sure to replace the default "de" with "fr" in the "In language" field!