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)

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)

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)

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)