Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/DePaul University/Bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world (Autumn Quarter 2021)

This course examines bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world in society and in individuals. At the societal level, it discusses the distribution of languages in contact with Spanish throughout the world and the social and political factors that affect language use, acquisition and maintenance, including language policy and bilingual education. At the individual level, it discusses first and second language acquisition and bilingual language processing and use, including code-switching and other linguistic features resulting from language contact. This class will be conducted in Spanish.

The Wikipedia project will be a translation project in which students translate articles on minority languages and their speakers, language policy and planning, bilingual education, language contact situations, or other topics related to bi- and multilingualism from the Spanish Wikipedia.

Week 1

 * Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you.

Week 2
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.

Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the &quot;Get Help&quot; button on this page.

To get started, please review the following handouts:


 * Editing Wikipedia pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia


 * Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you.
 * It's time to dive into Wikipedia. Below, you'll find the first set of online trainings you'll need to take. New modules will appear on this timeline as you get to new milestones. Be sure to check back and complete them! Incomplete trainings will be reflected in your grade.
 * When you finish the trainings, practice by:
 * writing a sentence or two about yourself on your Talk page;
 * uploading a picture on your Talk page (optional, only if you'd like to);
 * introducing yourself to a classmate on that classmate’s Talk page;
 * making 2-3 small edits for clarity on any page(s) related to language, bilingualism, bilingual speakers, or linguistics.

Week 3
After our class discussion, complete the two trainings above. Then go to the Articles tab to review the pre-selected articles. You can choose appropriate articles from there, or you can find your own proposed article.

After the workshop, choose two articles (a first choice, and a backup) to translate into English. Post the article links on your talk page to submit them to the instructor for review.

Week 4
Once your instructor has approved one or both of your selected articles, finalize your choice of which article to translate by assigning it to yourself, following the steps explained here. You'll also start thinking about where your article needs to be improved and begin compiling a bibliography, which for our class will mostly be sourced from the target-language article.


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

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Supplementary trainings:


 * Sandboxes and Mainspace

Week 5

 * Continue to translate your work.


 * A rough draft of your translation should be in your sandbox.

Week 6

 * You'll be assigned a classmate's article to review.
 * Complete the Peer Review training to learn what makes a good peer review.
 * Read the original article and the translation.
 * Give several (at least five) concrete constructive suggestions for improvement on  your classmate's talk page.

Week 7

 * Be ready to discuss your progress translating your article.
 * Carefully note the original citations for facts in your source article.
 * If an original source doesn't seem reliable, feel free to omit it from your translation.
 * Discussion of fact-checking translated work, finding English-language sources.

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Handouts: and


 * Continue to translate your work.
 * Introduce citations from English-language texts that support the facts stated in your translated article. Adjust your translation if necessary.
 * For each sentence you translate, make a note of the sources used in the original article. Are they good sources? Do they really say what the Wikipedia article describes?

Week 8

 * Full draft with citations in your sandbox.
 * Draft should be of the final article you intend to produce, incorporating existing English content with the Spanish content you translated.
 * Sources have been evaluated and used or removed as appropriate.
 * English-language sources included as necessary.

Week 9

 * You'll be assigned a classmate's article (a different article than the one you reviewed before).
 * Review the Peer Review training to remind yourself what makes a good peer review.
 * Read the original article and the translation.
 * Give several (at least five) concrete constructive suggestions for improvement on your classmate's talk page. Pay special attention to sourcing and citations.

Week 10

 * Review discussion of fact-checking translated work, finding English-language sources.
 * Troubleshooting specific problems and crowdsourcing translation solutions.
 * Peer review of translations.


 * Move sandbox articles into main space.
 * If you are expanding an existing article, it's time to add your revised translation (including English sources, when available). Copy your edit into the article. If you are making many small edits, save after each edit before you make the next one. Do NOT paste over the entire existing article, or large sections of the existing article. Be sure to check the article's talk page and respond to suggestions from Wikipedians. Don't panic if your edits are removed or changed! Discuss it civilly on the article's talk page, and make a note of it for your report or presentation about your editing experience.
 * If you are creating a new article, do NOT copy and paste your text, or there will be no record of your work history. Follow instruction on the &quot;Moving out of your sandbox&quot; handout.
 * In your first edit to the article namespace, include a link of the source article (i.e., the article you translated) in the &quot;edit summary&quot; before hitting &quot;save.&quot;
 * Copy the code to the bottom of the Wikipedia article, replacing es with the language code of the language you a translating from and replacing Page Title with the title of the source page.

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Handout:

Week 11

 * Individual presentations about the content of your article, your translation process, and how this assignment relates to the other course content.
 * See D2L for a detailed set of guidelines for what should be included in your presentation and the evaluation rubric.


 * Draft a short essay reflecting on your experience with this project, what you learned, and how it relates to the other course content.
 * See D2L for a detailed set of guidelines for what should be included in your essay and the evaluation rubric.

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