Appropedia:Student guide for course-based translation   

Contents 1 Student account creation 1.1 Familiarize with resources 1.2 Familiarize with wiki features 2 Choosing articles to translate 3 Article naming conventions 4 Creating a new article 5 Editing an existing article 6 Marking the article as a translation "work in progress" 7 Categorizing articles by language 8 Creating language links 9 Volunteer to support another class

[edit] Student account creation

[edit] Familiarize with resources

• Technical phrase language translations
• Using Open Office to convert Word to wiki-text

[edit] Familiarize with wiki features

• History helps see who can edit
• Article "talk" pages
• User talk pages
• Page view counts

[edit] Choosing articles to translate

• The translation wishlist
• Based on interesting topic
• Based on number of page views

[edit] Article naming conventions

[edit] Creating a new article

[edit] Editing an existing article

[edit] Marking the article as a translation "work in progress"

[edit] Categorizing articles by language

[edit] Creating language links

Use the template

[edit] Volunteer to support another class