Wikipedia:Meetup/TranslationStudiesEditathon

This is a session organized by the European Society for Translation Studies. This preliminary event wants to look into the possibility of organizing coordinated national events to improve Translation Studies related articles across several languages. No previous Wikipedia editing experience is required (the day includes a short introduction to editing), but please create your account before the edit-a-thon begins. If you are interested in participating, please sign up below. Remote participation is also possible.


 * When
 * June 18, 2015, 16:00 – 18:00 GMT+1.


 * Where
 * Universitat Rovira i Virgili
 * | How to get there


 * What to bring
 * A fully charged laptop computer with charger (and extension cord if you have one!)


 * RSVP Recommended
 * Please sign up below if you plan on joining us or e-mail us.

Goals

 * To test the possibility of coordinated events.
 * To encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia.
 * To improve a selection of Wikipedia articles related to Translation Studies.

Attending in person (limit 10 attendees)

 * 1) --Suzusan (talk) 18:25, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

Participating remotely

 * 1) Bristol_Irish (talk) 16:18, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) Dorregocarmona (talk) 16:18, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
 * 3) User:Soaga
 * 4) Mhlap_1 (talk) 16:03, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Suggested articles to create or edit
Below is a list of articles which could be created or expanded. For the pilot we are only proposing biographies. This list is not exhaustive and you may edit or expand any additional Wikipedia articles.

New articles

 * Miriam Shlesinger
 * Martha Cheung
 * Daniel Simeoni
 * Jose Lambert
 * Andrew Chesterman
 * Ian Mason
 * Theo Hermans
 * Basil Hatim (available in German only)
 * Don Kiraly (available in German only)

Articles to expand

 * Translation Studies (and the pages in Catalan, German, Italian and Spanish)
 * Gideon Toury
 * Antoine Berman
 * Hans Vermeer

Articles to translate

 * Gideon Toury (into Spanish)
 * Itamar Even-Zohar (into Italian)
 * Edwin Gentzler (into German and Italian)

Resources

 * Interviews with translation scholars

Editing Wikipedia resources

 * Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
 * Tutorial
 * How to Edit a Page
 * Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
 * Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
 * Article Development
 * Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Manual of Style
 * Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)

Tools and templates

 * Citation templates
 * Infobox templates
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Writing an article
 * About the Sandbox

Wikipedia Editing Tutorials
Wikipedia citations are done in-line with the text, and are automatically aggregated as footnotes at the bottom of pages. Citation templates are an easy way for beginners to begin inserting citations.
 * Wikipedia Core Content Policies
 * Inserting Citations

Copyright and Wikipedia
Do not copy-paste text from a website directly into Wikipedia. Paraphrasing and citation is necessary.

Most of Wikipedia's text and many of its images are co-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).

Every image has a description page which indicates the license under which it is released or, if it is non-free, the rationale under which it is used.

Conflict of Interest

 * FAQ on Conflict of Interest Editing
 * FAQ on paid contributions without disclosure

Results
Please list here pages you created or edited during the event.


 * Martha Cheung
 * Jose Lambert
 * Andrew Chesterman
 * Ian Mason
 * Theo Hermans
 * Don Kiraly
 * Hans Vermeer