Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Translation studies

Adding a to-do task

I was reviewing the messages and useful pages like List of Calderón's plays in English translation point to a problem I had seen before: several translators are not categorized as such, often because they had more visible occupations. See George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol or Isaac Bickerstaffe. Would you consider categorizing translators as such a good to-do task to add to the main list? Suzusan (talk) 14:52, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Question about scope of Wikiproject TS

I note that on the pages within the remit of this project, the rubric says: 'This article is within the scope of the WikiProject Translation Studies, a collaborative effort to expand, improve and standardise the content and structure of articles related to translators'. Could we change this to read 'related to translators and the discipline of translation studies' or similar? If so, how would we do this? Bristol Irish (talk) 03:12, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Aarhus editathon 2016

To everyone who has Watchlisted this discussion, we're gearing up for another TS Wikipedia event at the European Society for Translation Studies Congress in Aarhus from 14 September. Anybody who wants to join us is welcome to add their name at the | Aarhus Meetup page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bristol Irish (talk • contribs) 21:54, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Hi! As Bristol Irish mentioned, we are trying to get other people involved. We will run an editathon and also a small workshop to show the participants how to edit, tag and interact with Wikipedia and then direct them to this project. What do you think would be the most urgent task? It might be a good opportunity to start them. Best, --Suzusan (talk) 15:00, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the support

Thanks to all the people that gave their support to this WikiProject! Herewith the link to the original proposal. Regards, --Fadesga (talk) 13:19, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to our April event

You are invited...
	Women Writers worldwide online edit-a-thon Hosts: Women in Red, Women writers April 2016

(To subscribe, Women in Red/Invite list. Unsubscribe, Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 02:10, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Category:Tchernichovsky Prize recipients has been nominated for discussion

Category:Tchernichovsky Prize recipients, which you created, has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 01:57, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

Adaptation and Tradaptation

I was wondering whether we need an entry on Tradaptation (term is from Lepage and others) - is well enough established for its own entry? Otherwise I would say we could add it to the entry on Adaptation, but I see there is no entry on Adaptation on its own + just Film adaptation, Stage adaptation etc. (see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptation_(disambiguation) |disambiguation entry on Adaptation} Maybe the first thing would be to add an overview article on adaptation? Bristol Irish (talk) 12:15, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

Categories

There is a Category:Male translators (has 1000+ entries in it) but not a category 'Female translators'. Worth adding? Can we add categories? I have now added a category for "Subtitler" Bristol Irish (talk) 16:22, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi! I recently discovered that most male/female categories were to be deleted. So, I don't think we can add it. And, yes, we can add categories if they don't exist. Sorry for being out of the workforce for some time.--Suzusan (talk) 14:38, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

BHC - Genesis, 2016

Dear WikiProject Translation studies, this is the published version of the Genesis from 2016 1 (amazon.com), first book of the BHC (Biblia Hebraica Quinta) by Avraham Tal from Tel-Aviv. I would like to ask that this is version of the Genesis have accurate translation all Hebrew words? E.g. this is the Genesis from the Leningrad Codex: professional and useful translation. Avraham Tal's Genesis (2016) have this professional translation for the Hebrew words? Doncsecz^talk 14:41, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Automated translation tool

There used to be a translation tool (Under the Contribution button). Is it still available? Леонид Котов (talk) 06:57, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
It is still available, but you must first mark that you want to use it (you can do that in the Beta tab). Be careful, becuause it runs on different translation engines and some need more post-editing than other ones.--Suzusan (talk) 14:40, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Assessment template

Hello, everyone! Why can't we have one of these nice assessment templates? Who can make one for us? Itsused (talk) 11:58, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

Pinging Fadesga and Góngora. Itsused (talk) 20:33, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

Itsused, are you talking about this ? Articles are already being classified by quality. --Fadesga (talk) 21:14, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

No, I am talking about this – sorry for being unspecific. Itsused (talk) 03:18, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

Many other WikiProjects have this. WikiProject Food and drink, for example. Itsused (talk) 06:54, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Scattered notes

Hello, translationists. I noticed that @Fadesga just tagged my List of English translations of De rerum natura for your WikiProject, so I thought I'd point out my very similar List of Calderón's plays in English translation. A little further afield, my List of Vetala Tales implies translation, but focuses on recension... so I don't know if that's your thing or not.

Do your interests extend to translations within Wikipedia? I'm inordinately proud of my very beginner-level contributions to {{Verse translation}}, and have applied it quite widely. I hold (I expect that I'm in the minority) that when foreign-language verse is used to exemplify a verse form, it should be accompanied by an English formal paraphrase in preference to the most literal possible prose rendering, since in these cases it is the form that provides its rationale, not the content. I have contributed several of these (here's my brag list), and even tried setting up a Phil wink/Translation workshop to formalize the process. Cheers. Phil wink (talk) 00:35, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi Phil wink, thank you for bringing up this. I have just added your template to the templates in use within the WikiProject. In my personal opinion, the template and its usage are within the scope of our project.

As for your translation workshop, I celebrate your effort. Maybe with time coming it could be the beginning of a sub-project.

Further, you are invited to join our WikiProject if you wish. Regards, --Fadesga (talk) 13:46, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

Overhauling the lang-xx templates for more selective italics behavior

FYI

 – Pointer to relevant discussion elsewhere.

Please see: Template_talk:Lang#Parameter to selectively disable auto-italics in the Lang-xx templates
 — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ<  07:17, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Feedback requested at Villon poem article

Should a second translation of poet François Villon's poem be included at this article? Your feedback is requested at Talk:Ballade des dames du temps jadis#Inclusion of second translation. Mathglot (talk) 08:55, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!

A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.

– Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:25, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Call to action!

pls see Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19/Translation Task Force.--Moxy 🍁 15:36, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Merge proposal at Source language (translation)

Your feedback would be appreciated at Talk:Source language (translation)#Merger proposal. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 01:26, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Discussion regarding Template talk:Interlanguage link

There is a discussion at Template talk:Interlanguage link#Suppressing Crewbot conversion that may be of interest to this WikiProject. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 14:28, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Interlang notice template

FYI, {{Polyglot RFD}} has been nominated for deletion. This may be of interest to users here -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 04:31, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Expand Bashkir

Template:Expand Bashkir has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 02:45, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

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Template:Expand language has an RFC

Template:Expand language, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. --N8_wilson 20:25, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Discussion on disallowing use of the ʻokina in Chinese romanized article titles

There is currently a discussion that may interest you. Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Disallowing use of the ʻokina in Chinese romanized article titles proposes that the ʻokina gennerally be prohibited from article titles derived from Chinese whenever it does not adhere to the English Wikipedia policy to use commonly recognizable names. Plese join the discussion. Thank you. Peaceray (talk) 17:12, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 21:40, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Selected Translations - WIP or Published only?

Hello, I created a page for Russian-English Translator Max Lawton, I based the page structure off some other known translator pages, like Anton Hur. I wondered if selected works should be only published ones (with ISBN and publisher), or ones that are Work in Progress, that are maybe mentioned in articles / press.

Is there a standard for this? Leaning towards published only.

Lacanic (talk) 18:21, 7 March 2024 (UTC)