ALP II - Translating Wikipedia SoSe 2017
editWelcome
editThis is my Wikipedia page. Together with other students from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg I am currently translating articles from German to English.
Record of work
edit| Date | Project | Time | Difficulties |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26.04.17 | Trio section 6 | 45 min | technical terms like "Achtspur-Maschinen" |
| 02.05.17 | finishing Trio section 6 | 30 min | technical terms like "Taktgeber", creating the pictures |
| 03.05.17 | Trio section 13 and started section 17 | 90 min | translation of the audio file, translating the template, concoluted sentences |
| 07.05.17 | finishing Trio section 17 | 30 min | musical terms like "Heimorgel" or "Liebesschnulzen" |
| 10.05.17 | comparing section 17 and translating section 24 | 90 min | the link does not work and "fancy sounding German sentences" were hard to translate |
| 17.05.17 | looking for a new article to translate -> Weingarten | 90 min | finding the right expressions (Stadtteil, Güterbahngleise,..) |
| 30.05.17 | working on Weingarten | 40 min | difficult terminology (Förderschulklasse, Autobahnzubringer, Erwachsenen-Begegnungsstätte,..) |
| 31.05.17 | finishing and comparing the Weingarten article; starting to translate the Littenweiler article | 90 min | creating the infobox (which still does not work); difficult words with no equivalent translation |
| 01.06.17 | homework assignment: starting to translate the article Ingenheim | 45 min | topographic names (Oberrheinisches Tiefland), "fränkische Landnahme" |
| 02.06.17 | homework assignment: translating the article Ingenheim | 30 min | specific terms like “Güterschenkung“ or “Burgmänner" and again topographic terms (Arrondissement Weissenburg, Departement Bas-Rhin) |
| 14.06.17 | proofreading passages from Littenweiler and publishing our first article (Weingarten) :) | 90 min | asking for help with the inbox (we still did not manage to create one ourselves), how to link articles together (so that no orphans are formed) and remembering to put templates on (for copyright reasons) |
| 20.06.17 | continuing with the next paragraph from Littenweiler | 45 min | difficult terminology: Recyclinghof, Bürgersaal, |
| 21.06.17 | linking the published article about Weingarten to other entries in wikipedia; comparing the Littenweiler article; searching for a new article to translate for next session (Mooswald) | 90 min | finding articles to link to our article Weingarten; how to translate German Schachtelsätze into English |
| 25.06.17 | translating a paragraph from the Mooswald article | 30 min | different word order than in the original; some words (like Mietwohnungen or Realschule/Gymnasium); how to properly translate subordinate clauses |
| 28.06.17 | publishing our second article (Littenweiler) and starting to translate a new one (Kappel) | 45 min | we left the infobox out since we still don't know how to do that... terminology (East capitalized or not?) |
| 05.07.17 | comparing the parts of the Mooswald article we translated at home | 40 min | Example |
| 12.07.17 | publishing the Mooswald article | 30 mins | Example |
My Translations
editTogether with two other students I translated and published the following articles: - Trio (Trio album) - Weingarten (Freiburg im Breisgau) - Littenweiler (Freiburg im Breisgau) - Mooswald (Freiburg im Breisgau)
I also translated and published an article on my own: - Ingenheim (Billigheim-Ingenheim)