User:Mozucat/workshops/draft translatathon 2017
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[edit]August
[edit]- When: Saturday August 24, 2-7pm
- Where: Southpoint Park, Roosevelt Island
September
[edit]- When: Saturday September 21
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- 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
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- May 4: Community Gardens Edit-a-thon
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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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 our 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?
If so, we would love for you to be a part of the first run of a Wikipedia translatathon, to be held on Wednesday, October 11th from 2-4pm in room E-106!
This is an event where people 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
Email Tara Coleman (tcoleman@lagcc.cuny.edu), Ann Matsuuchi (amatsuuchi@lagcc.cuny.edu) or Ximena Gallardo (xgallardo@lagcc.cuny.edu) with any questions.
Tara Coleman, PhD Department of English LaGuardia Community College
In which languages ?
[edit]- Here are a few examples.
- The list of language 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:
- Here are a few examples.
- On social networks
- Talk about the translate-a-thon using #HASHTAG HERE
List of articles to be translated
[edit]Please add any suggestions here:
- links here
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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References
[edit]See Also
[edit]Wikipedia Category "African American Comics Creators": African American Comics Creators