Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/DePaul University/Bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world (Spring Quarter 2019)

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
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

Week 2

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

Week 3

 * 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 4

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

Once your instructor has approved one or both of your selected articles, finalize your choice of which article to translate.

Week 5

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

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Supplementary trainings:


 * Sources and Citations
 * Sandboxes and Mainspace

Week 6

 * Continue to translate your work.

Week 7

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


 * Choose one classmate's article.
 * Read the original article and the translation.
 * Give several constructive suggestions for improvement.


 * 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

Week 9

 * 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 10

 * Full draft with citations in your sandbox.
 * Sources have been evaluated and used or removed as appropriate.
 * English-language sources included as necessary.


 * Choose one classmate's article (a different article than the one you reviewed before).
 * Read the original article and the translation.
 * Give several constructive suggestions for improvement.


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

Week 11

 * 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:


 * 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.