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Upcoming meetups and ongoing events
[edit]August
[edit]- When: Saturday August 24, 2-7pm
- Where: Southpoint Park, Roosevelt Island
September
[edit]- When: Saturday September 21
- Where: TBA
- When: Wednesday September 25, 7-9pm
- Where: Prime Produce
October
[edit]- When: Saturday October 26
- Where: Pratt Institute School of Information
Past Meetups & Events in 2023–24
[edit]- August 7-10: Wikimania 2024 in Poland
- July 19: Wikicurious: Editing Wikipedia for Beginners (launch event)
- June 26: WikiWednesday Salon - June
- June 8: Governors Island Wiknic - June 2024
- June 2: All-Day Hacking Sunday - June
- May 8: WikiWednesday Salon - May
- May 4: Community Gardens Edit-a-thon
- April 25: Hacking Night - April
- April 11: City Tech Library LBGTQIA Editathon
- April 10: WikiWednesday Salon - April
- March 16: Queens Name Explorer Edit-a-thon at the Queens Public Library Tech Lab at Queensbridge
- March 14: Pi Day Hacking Night
- March 5: Wiki Gala and fashion show with Wikimedia Foundation
- February 25: AfroCROWD Black Wiki History Month - Online edit-a-thon
- February 21: WikiWednesday Salon - February
- February 8: Hacking Night - February
- January 14: Wikipedia Day 2024 at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation
- January 4: Hacking Night
2023
[edit]- (second half)
- December 6: NYC Hacking Night
- November 15: WikiWednesday Salon - November
- November 8–13: NYC→Toronto Wiki-Train for WikiConference North America
- October 29: Wikidata Day in New York City
- October 21–22: Wiki-NYC Pavilion for Open House New York
- October 3: History of Medicine in Newark Wikipedia Editathon at Dana Library
- October 1: Hispanic-Latinx Heritage Month: Edit-a-thon!
- September 20: Annual Election & Members Meeting
- August 27: Great North American Wiknic on Governors Island
- August 23: WikiWednesday Salon - August
- July 29: New York Botanical Garden Environment of the Bronx Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
- July 19: WikiWednesday Salon - July
Photos from past Meetups & Events
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WikiGap Women, Health & Environment - Swedish Residence - April 2022
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Hacknic - Prospect Park - May 2022
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Wiki Worlds Fair - August 2022
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Depths of Wikipedia live in NYC - August 2022
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WikiConference North America - November 2022
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Wikipedia Day - Jefferson Market Library - January 2023
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WikiWedneday - Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch - February 2023
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Groiler Club Tour - March 2023
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Earth Day Edit-a-thon with Sure We Can recycling center - Brooklyn Public Library Bushwick Branch - April 2023
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Environment of the Bronx - NYBG - July 2023
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Wiki-Picnic - Governors Island - August 2023
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WikiWednesday - Prime Produce - September 2023
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Wikidata Day - October 2023
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Wikipedia Day - Brown Institute - January 2024
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Wiki-Cake at Wikipedia Day 2024
See also
[edit]- Archive of events in prior years
- Wikimedia New York City's Code of Conduct
- Wikimedia New York City Discord server
- Membership
When: | Wednesday, October 11 |
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Time: | 2:00pm – 4:00 pm EDT |
Address: | LaGuardia Community College Room E-106, 31-10 Thomson Avenue Queens, NY 11101 |
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Event Information
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/LaGuardia_CC_E_jeh.jpg/220px-LaGuardia_CC_E_jeh.jpg)
- Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2017
- Time: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
- Location: LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, Room E-106, LaGuardia Community College
- Who can attend: Open to all CUNY Students, Staff, and Faculty: Open to the public - bring ID to enter building.
- What to bring: There will be computers available in the lab. Guest wifi accounts available if you bring a laptop.
- Create an account: If you haven't created a Wikipedia Account, please do so. Follow our Instructions
- On social networks
- Talk about the translate-a-thon using #AfroCROWD, @afroCROWDit @Wikimedianyc
About the translate-a-thon
[edit]Do you read or write in more than one language?
Are you looking for ways to:
- Promote the linguistic and cultural knowledge possessed by LaGuardia students, faculty and staff?
- Help students build a sense of agency around their own learning and think critically about the information they take from the Internet?
- Help students appreciate the value of their access to information as part of CUNY and as bilingual or multilingual people, and consider ways to share that value?
During our Wednesday, October 11 event people will get together and translate articles from one Wikipedia language site to another. Participants will work on articles of their choosing, but we will be translating and learning the process together. You don’t need to have any experience with Wikipedia to participate – we will provide a training at the beginning of the event with everything you need to get started.
We hope to use this opportunity to test out the process before opening it up to all students, faculty and staff at LaGuardia for a full-scale translatathon in the spring. Colleagues here at LaGuardia and at institutions around the country are incorporating Wikipedia writing into their courses – this is particularly so at elite four-year institutions and in the STEM fields. Translatathons have recently been held locally, such as at MoMA, but we know that LaGuardians possess a wealth of linguistic and experiential knowledge that deserves to be shared.
Come help us make this happen! Please RSVP via the Google form at this link: RSVP FORM
Contact: Doctorxgc (talk) or Mozucat (talk) with any questions.
How to find articles that need translation
[edit]These are the most common methods:
1. Use Wikipedia Gap Finder (you can customize your search): http://recommend.wmflabs.org/#Recommend
2. Using the English Wikipedia, find an article that interests you. Then, look to the left of the page, in the gray bar beneath the Wikipedia globe. At the tail end of that list of links, you'll see "Languages," and links to all of the languages that also have that article. Languages are spelled in that language's alphabet or phonemes. For example, you won't see "Japanese" or "French," you'll see "日本語" and "Français".
Is the language you're studying listed? If so, click the language to see the same article in that language. You can compare the two articles to get a sense of what one has that the other does not. If not, that means there's no corresponding article in that language.
3. Head to the Wikipedia in the language you are studying. In the search bar, type: WP:GA (this will also work with Wikipedias using non-Roman alphabets). You'll be taken to a list of "Good Articles" on that language's Wikipedia, the best articles it has to offer. (You may need to find the page that lists them, if it's separate). Find a Good Article on your target language's Wikipedia. Check the bar on the side to see if there is a corresponding article in English. If there isn't, great! You can translate the article into English, and contribute it to the English Wikipedia.
Sometimes, the article exists, but is very short. That's OK, too. However, if both languages have well-developed pages on the topic, you will want to find another article. It can be very challenging to add content to an already-developed article.
In which languages?
[edit]- Translations from English to any language are welcome, but here are a few examples.
- The list of languages can be, but is not limited to:
- International languages:
- Arabic
- Catalan (ca:Viquiprojecte:16 Dones Africanes)
- English
- French
- German (de:Wikipedia:Translate-a-thon für 16 afrikanische Frauen)
- Mandarin
- Portuguese (pt:Wikipédia:Edit-a-thon/Atividades em português/16 Wiki Women)
- Romanian ()
- Spanish (es:Wikiproyecto:Mujeres/16 mujeres africanas)
- African languages: Akan, Afrikaans (af), Igbo, Hausa, Wolof, Tswana, Zulu, Xhosa, Shona, Swahili (sw), Yoruba (yo), Sudanese, Amharic (am), Tsonga, Ewe, Sesotho, Chichewa,
- International languages:
- Translations from English to any language are welcome, but here are a few examples.
List of articles to be translated
[edit]- The WikiProject Medicine Translation Taskforce has requested that we attempt to translate some of their more than 800 reviewed leads of medical articles ready for translation
- Consider translating the introductions to English Wikipedia's "featured articles", which are those which reviewers have identified as Wikipedia's best.
Link to view which of the above articles are missing in a specific language
Try the tool
[edit]You can access the tool from Special:ContentTranslation from Wikipedia in any language. Accessing it for the first time will also enable the tool for that wiki.
Content translation is available [[<tvar|beta>Special:MyLanguage/Beta Features</>|as a beta feature]] in all Wikipedias for logged-in users. Once it is enabled, you will see additional entry points to easily start a translation from your "contributions" page or from the list of languages of Wikipedia articles when they are missing in your language.
Outcomes of the translate-a-thon
[edit]Some figures
- Overall, ## articles have been created based on translation from the English version. Out of those ## are basically a near equivalent of the master article in terms of quality
- Additionally, ## previously existing article versions have been improved
- The overall number of languages concerned is ##
- ## other articles were also suggested
- ## people self reported participating to the translate-a-thon !
- a query listed ## participants (including ## bots...)
See also
[edit]- 16 African Women Translate-a-thon/tracking
- 16 African Women Translate-a-thon/languages
- Wiki Loves Women translation
- Wiki Loves Women translation
- User contributions
- 16 African Women Translate-a-thon
External links
[edit]- https://www.lehir.net/a-tool-to-estimate-gender-gap-on-wikidata-and-wikipedia/
- http://tools.dicare.org/gaps/gender.php
Read about other translatathons here
[edit]- At University College London in 2014 - A detailed description of how the event was organized and how it proceeded.
- The #16WikiWomen Translation Drive in February 2017, WikiLovesWomen project
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