Wikipedia:GLAM/UNIPD/English Global Language

In the course English as a Global Language, academic year 2018-2019, held by professor Francesca Helm, the students can create or improve Wikipedia articles about specific disciplinary content.

This project is a part of it:Progetto:Coordinamento/Università we are leading in the Wikipedia in Italian, fully supported by the community. The same university has other courses running with Wikipedia.

26th of November 2018 workshop
During this workshop, we introduce Wikipedia as a learning tool and its essential guidelines.


 * Presentation of the project and of the specific activity;
 * How to respect the copyright for all contents (text and images)
 * 5 pillars
 * How to cite cite sources (Help:Footnotes and Help:Find sources)
 * How to edit a Wikipedia page:
 * How to use the test page (Sandbox)
 * How to structure an article (Help:Section)

Basic guidelines: Help:Introduction to policies and guidelines/1

Hint: VisualEditor

To enable Visual Editor:
 * 1) login with your username on Wikipedia in English
 * 2) go to your preferences Special:Preferences
 * 3) unckeck the option "Temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta"
 * 4) in the "editing mode" menu, choose "Show me both editor tabs".
 * 5) press "Save" button and the bottom of the page.
 * 6) reload page(s).

Tutors

 * Baldersdod (msg) (online tutor, he assists the students; contact him using the talk page)
 * MarcoK (msg) (trainer, he leads two live workshops, one at the beginning and one at the end of the course)
 * Cinzia Ferranti --Cferranti (msg) (tutor Unipd and project coordinator of "Learning with Wikipedia")

Resources for students

 * The project "Learning with Wikipedia"
 * The translation tool

Participants
Students are invited to register an individual account and add their own signature using only the wikisyntax (Help:Signature) below.

It is also necessary to create your userpage writing essential information on your activities during this course, and adding a link to this page.

(Add you signature here, one per row):


 * 1) --Calfux (talk) 11:50, 26 November 2018 (UTC)+
 * 2) --Albidmb (talk) 11:51, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 3) --Mauna96 (talk) 11:53, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 4) --Manofredda (talk) 11:54, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 5) --TheGuyWithGlasses (talk) 11:57, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 6) --Brina95 (talk) 11:59, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 7) --VictoriaZagitova (talk) 12:00, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 8) --JovanTripkovic (talk) 12:05, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 9) --Ilmayo94 (talk) 12:07, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 10) --ElenaFu (talk) 12:08, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 11) --Aribrtn (talk) 12:08, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 12) --Adilyildiz (talk) 12:10, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 13) --Eliacavarzan (talk) 12:12, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 14) Riry95 (talk) 12:13, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 15) --MarilynColt (talk) 12:16, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 16) --Alesia Veliu (talk) 12:17, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 17) --ValEgos (talk) 12:20, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 18) --Giuppy92 (talk) 16:37, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 19) --Mbakgun (talk) 22:15, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 20) --Raffabel (talk) 00:41, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 21) --MichiEgos (talk) 12:00, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 22) --Serelica (talk) 15:04, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 23) --Ikamscc (talk) 10:45, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 24) --Giulia Zaghini (talk) 08:20, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 25) --Marco liut (talk) 10:50, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 26) --Anto vtt (talk) 11:31, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 27) --Ch.ferr (talk) 11:37, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 28) --Francescassaro (talk) 11:45, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 29) --Annasevic (talk) 11:48, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 30) --Sofia.levo (talk) 11:50, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 31) --Senduy (talk) 11:53, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 32) --OntarioDrug (talk) 11:56, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 33) --Carlacongiu (talk) 11:59, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 34) --Monica.isabella (talk) 12:06, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 35) --User:Alirezahosseyni
 * 36) --Chiarastenico (talk) 09:45, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 37) --Startchenko (talk) 01:45, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 38) --劉亭利 (talk) 11:00, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 39) --PO-CHEN,YEH (talk) 11:20, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 40) --Stefanurse (talk) 10:50, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 41) --BogdanCiuca (talk) 10:17, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 42) --GiuliaStefani 11:09, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 43) --Meerim.yusupova 19:33, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 44) --LiogiuGibro (talk) 10:45, 13 December 2018 (UTC)=

Articles
Articles worked in small groups need to be developed collectively in the sandbox of one of the members (group leader) before publishing it into Wikipedia. All participants should contribute individually to the contents (all edits are recorded in the page history).

Group sandboxes will be listed above. For a user named "Johndoe22", his sandbox is )

Please note: if you want to expand an existing article, please copy first the wikitext of the article into your sandbox, then work on it safely.

List of articles to be created or improved:

Articles to be improved or extended: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International English specific section
 * XX
 * International English
 * Global language [English&action=edit&section=2], another sub sections:
 * neutrality
 * opposition
 * English as a lingua franca
 * Language policy - Case studies
 * Add new section: Language policy in Italy
 * translation from English to Italian of Language policy (it:Politica linguistica)

Teacher can reorganize English-medium education Source for students review of english medium instruction in higher education.pdf
 * English-medium instruction in existing article English-medium education

Content and language integrated learning main source docs/images/members/ACA-2015 English Taught 01.pdf sub sections:
 * Field of research (in higher education)
 * 1 section in Europe
 * In Italy
 * In France

Articles to be created:
 * XX

Some examples of good articles
 * Decolonising the Mind
 * World Englishes

List here the Group Sandboxes: Example: # User:Didatticus/sandbox - Group: --Didatticus (msg) and Marcok (msg)

Articles and working groups:
 * 1) English-medium education (expanded articles paragraph on English-medium education in Serbia, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan) - Sandbox: User:Adilyildiz/sandbox - Group:  Meerim.yusupova (talk) 20:48, 3 December 2018 (UTC) Adilyildiz (talk) 20:40, 3 December 2018 (UTC) JovanTripkovic
 * 2) talk) English-medium education (expandend article paragraph on English-medium education in Italy) - Sandbox: User:Ikamscc/sandbox - Group: Serelica (talk) 10:20, 3 December 2018 (UTC); Ikamscc (talk) 10:22, 3 December 2018 (UTC); Giulia Zaghini (talk) 10:23, 3 December 2018 (UTC); Marco liut (talk) 10:24, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 3) Language policy in Ireland (new article) - Sandbox: User:--[[User:VictoriaZagitova/sandbox2 (talk) 11:55, 3 December 2018 (UTC)]] - Group: --VictoriaZagitova (talk) 11:55, 3 December 2018 (UTC)Monica.isabella (talk) 12:41, 17 December 2018 (UTC), 3 December 2018 (UTC) Sofia.levo (talk) 12:16, 3 December 2018 (UTC) Carlacongiu (talk) 12:18, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 4) Injustices in English-medium Instruction in English-medium education (new paragraph in English-medium education) - Sandbox: User: TheGuyWithGlasses/sandbox - Group:TheGuyWithGlasses (talk) 12:01, 3 December 2018 (UTC); Ch.ferr (talk) 12:03, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * it:Politica linguistica (Translation English/Italian of Language policy) - Sandbox: User: Senduy/sandbox - Group:Senduy (talk) 13:21, 3 December 2018 (UTC); Eliacavarzan (talk) 13:24, 3 December 2018 (UTC); Manofredda (talk) 13:25, 3 December 2018 (UTC);  Brina95 (talk) 13:27, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 1) English as a global language - Sandbox: User:Ilmayo94/sandbox - Group: --Ilmayo94 (talk) 12:38, 3 December 2018 (UTC) --Aribrtn (talk) 12:39, 3 December 2018 (UTC) --OntarioDrug (talk) 12:40, 3 December 2018 (UTC) --Annasevic (talk) 12:41, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 2) European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (improve this article and translation in Italian it:Carta europea delle lingue regionali o minoritarie) - Sandbox: User:Riry95/sandbox - Group: --Riry95 (talk) 12:49, 3 December 2018 --Francescassaro (talk) 12:50, 3 December 2018 (UTC)(UTC)
 * 3) Language policy in Taiwan (new article) - Sandbox: User:--[[User:劉亭利/sandbox (talk) 11:22, 4 December 2018 (UTC)]] - Group: --劉亭利 (talk) 11:22, 4 December 2018 (UTC);signature PO-CHEN,YEH (talk) 11:24, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 4) Languages of Italy (expanded article) and Linguistic rights (added paragraph in Language rights in different countries in Italy) - Sandbox: User:Albidmb/sandbox - Group:--Albidmb (talk) 10:44, 4 December 2018 (UTC) --Anto vtt (talk) 10:45, 4 December 2018 (UTC) --Breb19 (talk) 10:48, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 5) Language policy for immigrants in the UK (new article) - Sandbox:User:ElenaFu/sandbox - Group:-- ElenaFu (talk) 10:55, 4 December 2018 (UTC), Mbakgun (talk) 10:55, 4 December 2018 (UTC),Chiarastenico (talk) 10:57, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 6) Psychological Damages of Global English (add paragraph to English as a Global Language) - Sandbox:User:Raffabel/sandbox - Group: --Raffabel (talk), ValEgos (talk), MichiEgos (talk), LiogiuGibro (talk)
 * 7) Language Policy in Russia (translated article from Russian into English, Albanian and German)- Sandbox:User:MarilynColt/sandbox - Group: User:MarilynColt/sandbox, User:Alesia Veliu/sandbox, User:Mauna96/sandbox
 * 8) English as a lingua franca (add paragraph about international organizations) - Sandbox: User:Stefanurse/sandbox 13:08, 10 December 2018 (UTC) - Group: Stefanurse (talk) 12:10, 17 December 2018 (UTC)GiuliaStefani 12:15, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 9) Language foreign policy in Iran, before and after the Revolution (new article) - Sandbox: User:--[[User:Startchenko/sandbox (talk) 14:00, 12 December 2018 (UTC)]] - Group: --User:Alirezahosseyni (talk) 14:00, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Resources

 * Journal of Language Policy
 * Ethnologue
 * Language education policy
 * UNESCO language policies

Further information
Please start reading these pages:
 * Copyrights (how to avoid copyright infringments)
 * Notability (what to put into Wikipedia and what not, and how to choose the right topics for your article)
 * Tutorial (how to learn to contribute to Wikipedia)
 * VisualEditor - how to enable and use visual editor mode (easiest way to edit a page, and for inserting footnotes with sources)
 * Help:Wikitext and Manual of Style (correct format and conventions to be used)
 * Finding images tutorial (not all images are allowed!)
 * Content translation tool (may help)
 * GLAM (how cultural institutions can collaborate with Wikipedia)
 * it:Progetto:Coordinamento/Università/UNIPD (Italian) - other courses using Wikipedia of the same university

Questions?
If you have questions you can use the talk page (clicking on "new discussion" and putting your signature at the end.

Note
it:Progetto:Coordinamento/Università/UNIPD/English_Global_Language