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Lesson Plan: Translation on Wikipedia
Estimated time length
[edit]60 minutes
Learning objectives
[edit]Students will gain, reinforce, understand, or learn:
- The ability to create expository writing in another language
- The ability to effectively communicate meaning in another language
- Their vocabulary knowledge in another language
- Greater understanding of the other language
- Greater understanding of their native language
- The knowledge of how a large online community works
- How to collaborate with others worldwide in an online community
Step-by-step process
[edit]- Watch an instructional video on Wikimedia Foundation YouTube channel about how to do translations.
- Find one article to translate and assign ~500 words or a certain section for each student. (This amount can be changed to whatever you feel best fits your class).
- Use content translation tool to enter translations.
- Translate the article.
Resources and tools
[edit]- “Content translation” (explanation of the tool on MediaWiki)
- Content translation on the Wikimedia blog
- Instructional video on the Wikimedia Foundation YouTube channel