I strongly discourage my students when they want to translate articles. However, these are the rules of the game, so, if they insist, they may do so. My two objections are: - There is no guarantee that the original articles are good enough - so we have to come back to criticism exercises to evaluate them, thus going away from the intended translation exercise. - It is a priceless asset to have different cultures stating their own views on the same subjects. Here I'm thinking about non-technical articles, mainly. (Not to say that I've spotted lots of cases of lazy Google Translator work).
However, I do agree that the goals of this Mexico project are also important for the students. Just adding my 2 cents, then.
Juliana.
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:09 PM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Leigh Thelmadatter osamadre@hotmail.com Date: Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:44 AM Subject: Wikipedia Signpost article To: Teachers Wikipedia teaching-with-wikipedia@listserv.olemiss.edu
Pharos has put something I wrote as a draft article for the Wikipedia Signpost to push for an education column in the publication.
Please take a look at the draft here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Education_report and feel free to participate!
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