user:OberMegaTrans
Welcome!
Who we are
- This is the user page of "OberMegaTrans" in the English language section of Wikipedia. This is my individual user page that I use to coordinate work with others on Wikipedia. Basically, what we do as a group of people - students and an instructor or two - at the University of Freiburg, is translate articles in the German language Wikipedia, or sometimes other languages (see below), into English for use on the English language Wikipedia. Sometimes we collaborate with other groups, like a group of instructors and students of German at the University of Aberdeen in 2010, to translate English language articles into German.
- Here's a list of articles we've translated or are translating into English, either completely or partially:
Latin Settlement, Friedrich Kapp, Basel Münster, Balko, Strausse, Anti-WAAhnsinns Festival, Harald Schmidt (ARD), Amok (Stefan Zweig book), Vicco von Bülow, German Red Cross, Cleopa Ilie, Alconétar Bridge Image:Symbol support vote.png, Eckart von Hirschhausen, Ephraimiten, Oliver Pocher, Schirmacher Oasis, Federal Election System (Germany), HIV/AIDS in Ukraine, Medieval Greek, electronic cash, Augsburger Puppenkiste, Elwetritsch, Freiburg Bächle, Kaiserstuhl, Counts of Freiburg, Walk of Ideas, Free City of Frankfurt, Illuminati, Kaiser-Joseph-Straße, Dreisam, Dieter Nuhr, List of deaths at the Berlin Wall, Pegida, Die Welle, Swabian-Alemannic Fastnacht, Donauquelle, Augustinermuseum, Nibelungen Museum Worms, Konzerthaus Freiburg, Green spaces in Freiburg, Asylum in Germany, Currywurst, Schauinsland, Culture of Remembrance, Otto Krayer, Heart of Stone, K.I.Z., Little Muck, Blutritt, Schorle, Why We Took the Car, Colombischlössle, How It Is (Wap Bap …), Höllentalbahn (Black Forest), Stadtgarten Freiburg, Rathaus (Freiburg im Breisgau), Wolfgang Herrndorf, Studierendenwerk Freiburg, COREU, Rieselfeld, Cut Off (film), SC-Stadion, Advent calendar, Tennenbronn, Hinterzartener Moor, Jupiter Jones, and Schloss Ritzebüttel.
- Occassionally we translate (parts of) articles into German:
A Mathematician's Apology and Pacific Crest Trail.
- Here's a list of some potential candidates for us to work on. Feel free to add your suggestions:
Franz Karl Stanzel, Semester at Sea, Nursing ethics, documenta, Patrick Süskind, Pilgrim Hall Museum, Heuriger, Mount Zion Cemetery, Jerusalem, Colton Point State Park, Svetlana Geier, Apparentment, Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi, Illuminati, Das Kapital, Marxian economics, Reichstag fire, Mong Tai Army, Rape during the occupation of Germany, Politics of Somaliland, Trade unions in Germany, Three Emperors Dinner, Heinz Drossel, Victoria Woodhull, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Washington Buck Washington], Minced oath, Boston Brahmin, Eyeish, Ay kingdom, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, Sankt Georgen (Freiburg), Merzhausen, TheocracyWatch, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4the_Vordtriede Käthe Vordtriede], Hambach Forest, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harro_von_Senger Harro von Senger], Savitri (opera), Forth and Bargy dialect, Ancient Belgian language, Grievance studies affair, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosias-Maler Sosias-Maler].
- My user page on the German language Wikipedia is [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:OberMegaTrans here].
- If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions of articles for us to translate OR if you'd like to work with us, please don't hesitate to visit my discussion page and/or send us an email!
Templates
{{Translated|de|Whatever}}
To insert this template use:
NB: If you want to use this template in other languages, you will also need to change "Translated" into the target language and the "de" will need to be changed to the original source language. To show, for instance, that you had translated (part of) the article Winal from English into Romanian, you would modify the template thus:
{{cleanup-translation}}
To insert the template above use:
{{cleanup|date=November 2010}}
To insert the template above use:
{{EducationalAssignment}}
To insert the template above use:
{{Beingtranslated|de|Etwas}}
To insert the template above use:
Info found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Being_translated/doc
To insert a map of a certain location use: {{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|type=point|coord={{Coord|00|00|00|N|00|00|00|E}}|title=Location} NB: Change the coordinates and the location name
{{Proofreader needed|Etwas|de}}
More templates and info on templates:
A very brief introduction to templates
General information on templates
Specific information (How they are used on WP)
Login Update
Wikipedia & related projects now allow a [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login Unified Login]. Simply put, this allows you to create ONE account with ONE Username and ONE Password using ONE email address that can be used in (almost?) all languages and projects of Wikimedia/Wikipedia, etc. This is great news. This is progress. This makes translating and working with multiple languages much easier. If you want to find out how to unify accounts you've already created, read [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login this]. Otherwise you should just be able to switch from language to language, from project to project with the same username; you'll see your username at the top - in red at first, until/unless you create your userpage (in that particular language or project).
List of links
General
- [http://dictionary.reference.com/ Dictionary.com] - primarily American
- [https://www.merriam-webster.com/ Merriam Webster] - primarily American
- [http://www.oed.com/ Oxford English Dictionary] - primarily British (but with aspirations to global use)
- [http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ Cambridge Dictionary] - primarily British
- [http://dict.leo.org/ Leo Dictionary] - a multilingual online dictionary
- [http://www.dict.cc/ dict cc] - a bilingual (Eng/Ger) online dictionary
- [https://translate.google.com/ Google translate] - Google translator (multilingual)
- [http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000941 This] is a brief, clearly written article on "Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia".
- The Five Pillars of Editing (also mentioned in the article above).
- [http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors This] is a wonderfully long list of common errors in English (and how to avoid them).
- Welcome to the [http://englishplus.com/grammar/gsdeluxe.htm Grammar Slammer]!
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- This is a list of [http://www.drgrammar.org/frequently-asked-questions Frequently Asked Questions] on grammar from the University of Northern Iowa.
- Here's a tutorial on how to put pictures in your articles
- The sites on grammar and style (errors) found on this very useful page. Thanks to Giraffedata!
- Travel back in time to a [https://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePage Wikipedia] from long time ago.
- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copying_within_Wikipedia#Translating_from_other_language_Wikimedia_projects This] is a page that explains how translating and copyright work on Wikipedia
- Here's a list of language userboxes that you can use for your User pages.
- [https://www.deepl.com/en/translator Deep L Translator]
- [https://web.archive.org/ Archive.org: The Wayback Machine] allows the user to go "back in time" and see how websites looked in the past. Useful if a link in the references list of an article is not online anymore.
- [https://annual.wikimedia.org/2017/index.html#impact This link] will take you to the online version of the [https://annual.wikimedia.org/2017/index.html#impact 2016-2017 annual report] of the Wikimedia Foundation. (The article on the [https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonda%C4%B5o_Vikimedio Wikimedia Foundation] in Esperanto is an "excellent article" by the way.)
- [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland This link] will take you to Wikimedia Deutschland, which is roughly the German version of the Wikimedia Foundation.
- [https://wordcounter.net/ Count your words] with this link!
- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex?| Find out] how many subpages any User has
- If you'd like to visit the [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Freiburg%20im%20Breisgau Freiburg Stammtisch] of Wikipedians, here you go.
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/glossary Our glossary] for work being done here
Links recommended for beginners
- Student assignments - In a nutshell: When students edit Wikipedia as part of an assignment, it should improve Wikipedia – without any serious violations of content norms. This page contains advice to all parties involved.
- Your first article
- The Wikipedia Adventure Learn to edit Wikipedia in under an hour (video)
- Biographies of living persons
- How to write a great article
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- Help pages
- Tutorial
- Interacting with other Wikipedians on your User Talk pages
- [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%C3%9Cbersetzungsw%C3%BCnsche Articles suggested for translation into German]
- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles%20needing%20translation%20from%20German%20Wikipedia Articles needing translation from German Wikipedia]
- [https://not-in-the-other-language.toolforge.org/ Tool for finding wikipedia articles with no equivalent in a given different language]
Editing, cleaning up, adding references, etc.
- Wikipedia:Community Portal
- Wikipedia:Template messages
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
- How to put up a page (in English)
- [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilfe:Neuen_Artikel_anlegen How to put up a page (in German)]
- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners How to add references] (in English + videos)
- How to re-name a page
- Here is an explanation on how to use colors!
- [https://edwardbetts.com/find_link/?q= Find links tool]
- Requests for page importation in order to keep the history
Wikipedia Projects
- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template%3AExpand%20German?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Translation template list ]
- The main directory of WikiProjects
- Translation Portal
- Translation into English
- Project Germany
- Project France
- Spanish Translation of the Week (project inactive)
- Pages needing translation into English
- [https://blog.wikimedia.de/2021/05/12/curated-commons-freie-lizenzen-ermoeglichen-freie-weiterverwendung/ Curated Commons] "erleichtert die Auffindbarkeit und Nutzung von Bildern unter freier Lizenz im Internet"
Term projects
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/ss2025 Summer semester 2025]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/ws2024 Winter semester 2024/2025]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/ss2024 Summer semester 2024]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/ws2023 Winter semester 2023/2024]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/ss2023 Summer semester 2023]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/ws2022 Winter semester 2022/2023]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/ss2022 Summer semester 2022]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/ws2021 Winter semester 2021 /2022]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/ss2021 Summer semester 2021]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/ws2020 Winter semester 2020 /2021]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/SS2020 Summer semester 2020]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/WS2019 Winter semester 2019/2020]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/SS2019 Summer semester 2019]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/WS2018 Winter semester 2018/2019]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/SS2018 Summer semester 2018]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/WS2017 Winter semester 2017/2018]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/SS2017 Summer semester 2017]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/WS2016 Winter semester 16-17]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/Aberdeen2016 Aberdeen 2016]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/SS2016 Summer semester 2016]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/WS2015 Winter Semester 15-16]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/SS2015 Summer semester 2015]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/24 WS 2014-2015 Thurs]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/23 WS2013/14 Thurs]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/22 WS2013/14 Tues]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/21 SS2013]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/02 Iaşi]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/03 Medieval Greek, part 2]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/04 Medieval Greek, part 1]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/Translate WS 09/10]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/01 fabtrans]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/18 Holbeinpferd]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/19 Das Erste]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/22 Thursday]
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OberMegaTrans/30 Page 30]
Colleagues
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AnTransit AnTransit]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:TransMania TransMania]