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From Bloody Sunday�to Translating Ireland

Translatathon@Uniba meets

The Celtic Knot

Ferdinando Traversa Wikimedia Italia

Maristella Gatto

University of Bari

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Wikimedia Italy educational projects

  • Wikimedia Italy (also OpenStreetMap Italy) works on GLAM projects, educational partnerships, editathons, WLM…
  • Wikimedia Italy has been working with schools and universities for 10+ years.
  • Wikimedia Italy has signed agreements with universities (Dirium UniBa, UniPd, UniVr, UniBo…)

The Context

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Wikimedia Italy educational projects

  • University of Padua
    • Wikimedian in Residence
    • MOOC
    • Courses
  • University of Bologna
    • Focus on cultural heritage and digitalisation
  • University of Verona
    • Focus on archaeology
  • University of Milan
    • Digital Humanities master�

The Context

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Wikimedia Italy educational projects

  • University of Bari – Department of Research and Innovation in the Humanities
    • Translatathon@Uniba 2018-ongoing
    • Wikivoyage
    • Links with schools (Liceo Battaglini, Liceo Salvemini, Liceo Bianchi Dottula, ITIS Pitagora)
    • itWikiCon
    • Wiki Loves Monuments Puglia
    • Ministry-funded national interest project (targeting Wikibooks, Wikisource)

The Context

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Translatathon@Uniba 2018-2024

  • Teaching translation via Wikipedia
    • Innovative translation training based on authentic project work (Calzada Peréz 2019)
    • Interdisciplinary working environment for real-life collaborative translation tasks (Szymaczak 2013; McDonough Dolmaya 2015; Al-Shehari 2017; Shuttleworth 2017; Martinez-Carrasco 2018; Musacchio 2020)
    • full developement of a comprehensive «translation competence» (Gambier 2023; Gatto 2020; 2023)
    • public engagement («third mission»)

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The Project

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Translatathon@Uniba 2018-2024

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- Introduction Wikipedia (aims, working methods)

- Focus on editing skills

- Creation of individual sandboxes

- Assignment Pair/Group/Individual tasks

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Brief: Provide an equivalent target text including all IT-related technicalities (images, hyperlinks, formatting options, references, etc.) using localization strategies if required

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The Plan

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Each translated text goes through a three-level revision:

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  • Linguistic-cultural accuracy
  • Content accuracy
  • Compliance with Wikipedia standards

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The Plan

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Translatathon@Uniba 2018-2024

  • Case Studies

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1) SUSTAINABILITY

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2) WIKIVOYAGE

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3) WIKIMEDICINE

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4) BLOODY SUNDAY

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5) TRANSLATING IRELAND

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The themes

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  • Case Studies

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1) SUSTAINABILITY

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2) WIKIVOYAGE

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3) WIKIMEDICINE

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4) BLOODY SUNDAY

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5) TRANSLATING IRELAND

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The themes

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BLOODY SUNDAY

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2) BLOODY SUNDAY

  • Translatathon in Dec 2021
  • Revision in Jan 2022
  • Publication on 22th Jan 2022
  • Public event on 4th Feb 2022

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*Focus on NPOV

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Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre,[1] was a massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry,[n 1] Northern Ireland. Fourteen people died: thirteen were killed outright, while the death of another man four months later was attributed to his injuries. Many of the victims were shot while fleeing from the soldiers, and some were shot while trying to help the wounded.[2] Other protesters were injured by shrapnel, rubber bullets, or batons, two were run down by British Army vehicles, and some were beaten.[3][4] All of those shot were Catholics. The march had been organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) to protest against internment without trial. The soldiers were from the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment ("1 Para"), the same battalion implicated in the Ballymurphy massacre several months before.[5]

 

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21/01/2002 h 17.38 �(earliest version)

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Bloody Sunday 2002-2022:

The «label»:

  • tragic event?
  • incident?
  • massacre?

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The circumstances:

  • civil rights march?
  • riot?

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The place:

  • Derry/Londonderry

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  • On Sunday January 30, 1972,
  • in an incident since known as '''Bloody Sunday'‘’,
  • 13 people
  • were shot
  • by United Kingdom British soldiers

when the IRA attacked United Kingdom British soldiers

  • after a civil rights march during an illegal republican march
  • in the Bogside area of the city of Derry Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

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NPOV – Derry-Londonderry name dispute

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Derry/Londonderry

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Chat GPT

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Bloody Sunday is:

  • tragic event?
  • incident?
  • massacre?

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The circumstances:

  • civil rights march?
  • riot?

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civil rights march > riot march > riot

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riot > disturbance that followed a civil rights march

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  • On Sunday January 30, 1972,
  • in an incident since known as '''Bloody Sunday'‘’,
  • 13 people
  • were shot
  • by United Kingdom British soldiers

when the IRA attacked United Kingdom British soldiers

  • after a civil rights march during an illegal republican march
  • in the Bogside area of the city of Derry Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

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NPOV – Derry-Londonderry name dispute

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Derry/Londonderry

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Massacro… o strage?

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Chat GPT

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Translation Toolkit

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strage vs massacro (corpus linguistics tools)

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Ballymurphy massacre

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Massacre… massacro o strage?

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TRANSLATING IRELAND

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Translation of articles on Irish literature culture

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E.g. William Butler Yeats

  • Featured article in English
  • Incomplete article in Italian

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Next steps (beyond translation)

  • Wikisource
  • Transcription of Irish texts with their Italian translation?

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Next steps (beyond translation)

  • Transcription of Irish ST?

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Next steps (beyond translation)

  • Transcription of Irish ST?
  • Transcription of Italian TT by

R. Barone e M.Cataldi?

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Next steps (beyond translation)

  • Transcription of Irish ST?
  • Transcription of Italian TT by

R. Barone e M.Cataldi?

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  • Copyright issues?
  • Permissions?

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Gerrymandering

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3) WIKIMEDICINA

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Examples of translation tasks:

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“Vitamin Deficiency”

“Hematopoietic stem cells”

“Ischemic Optical Neuropathy”

“Scurvy”

“Toxic epidermal necrolysis»

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  • Fluency and accuracy (language/culture/style)
  • Accuracy (terminology/acronyms/content)
  • Compliance with Wikipedia standards
  • Quality assessment by the relevant disocurse community

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Conclusions?

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No, thanks!

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… but a replicable working model for translation-related knowledge-creation projects that can provide trainee translators and students in the humanities in general with an invaluable opportunity to become active participants in the dynamics of knowledge dissemination, thus “shaping our students into informed, civic-minded, digital participants in their social futures” (Hirsch 2012: 30)

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Wikimedia + Academia = �a win-win!

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Thanks for your attention!

Get in touch with us:

Ferdinando Traversa

Ferdinando.traversa@Wikimedia.it

Maristella Gatto

Maristella.gatto@uniba.it