Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Using Wikipedia as/for Corpus with Sketch Engine. A training for Translatathon@Uniba teaching staff (ID: 23099632)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Maristella Gatto
- Organization
Dipartimento di Ricerca e Innovazione Umanistica (Università degli Studi di Bari)
- If you are a group or organization leader, board member, president, executive director, or staff member at any Wikimedia group, affiliate, or Wikimedia Foundation, you are required to self-identify and present all roles. (required)
N/A
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Using Wikipedia as/for Corpus with Sketch Engine. A training for Translatathon@Uniba teaching staff
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-09-01 - 2026-08-31
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Italy
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Not applicable
- 6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)
The present application aims to support a new academic use of Wikimedia projects, moving beyond the organization of translation editathons with students in our Translation Studies programmes. Specifically, we seek to explore the potential of Wikipedia pages—both existing entries and those created during our translatathons—from a corpus linguistics perspective.
To this end, we would like to take advantage of a tailored training programme on the use of Sketch Engine, a platform for the investigation and compilation of multilingual corpora, including those based on Wikipedia content. The Wikimedia Foundation has previously funded a project that covered the purchase of a one-year licence for Sketch Engine. We are now applying for funds to support advanced training in the use of Sketch Engine, with a particular focus on the Wikipedia corpus available within the tool, as well as specialized training in the creation of parallel and comparable corpora using Wikipedia pages. We expect that corpus-based studies of Wikipedia pages may yield valuable data for critical disourse analysis and cross-cultural comparisons in areas such as the representation of historical events and gender bias.
The use of Wikipedia in corpus linguistics is a well-established approach, including in the applicant’s book The Web as Corpus (Bloomsbury, 2014, pp. 137–161). Further information about the Wikipedia corpus in Sketch Engine is available at: https://www.sketchengine.eu/english-wikipedia-corpus/
- 7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.
The
- 8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.
Our team is composed by: Maristella Gatto, Associate Professor of English Linguistics and Translations Studies and contact person for a Wikimedia Italia-Uniba Partnership (up to 2026):https://www.wikimedia.it/news/universita-di-bari-e-wikimedia-italia-insieme-per-la-conoscenza-libera/ ; https://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Convenzioni ; Gaetano Falco, Associate Professor of English Linguistics and Translations Studies and module convenor for Corpus Linguistics Francesco Meledandri, Research fellow in English Linguistics and Translations Studies and Univesity techear of ICT for Translation Ferdinando Traversa, Wikimedia Italia (Member of the National Board) Other colleagues will be involved on the basis of their participation in the training that the present project aims to offer.
- 9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities? (required)
The target participants for this specific project are professors/researchers of modern languages that are part of the teaching staff at the University of Bari. We all work in the same Department and teach in the same programmes for Language Mediation (BA) and Specialized Translation (MA). We meet regularly in the university premises, but we also share mailing lists and are constantly in touch. The participants in the training will be included in a WhatsApp/Telegram group for quick updated information on the project's development. Onsite/online group meetings will be scheduled according to the timeline proposed above.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
No
- 10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.
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- 11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.
This project has been developed as part of the activities promoted in the context of the current partnership between the University of Bari and Wikiemdia Italia. Ferdinando Traversa, a member of Wikimedia Italia’s national board, is in close contact with the Department of Ricerca e Innovazione Umanistica.
- 12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Language
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Education
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Not applicable
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
The creation of Wikipedia-based language resources will provide teachers, researchers and students at our University with useful material to raise awareness on the potential of Wikipedia data form a corpus linguistics perspective (including corpus-based translation studies). Furthermore, research on Wikipedia pages from the point of view of cross-cultural comparison can be enhanced by the availability of Wikipedia-based parallel/comparable corpora for specific language pairs. The long term result is to raise awareness in the academic community (with specific reference to the linguistics and translation studies community) of the enormous potential of Wikipedia as both a teaching and research environment.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 15 | The application concerns especially funds to benefit from an advanced a training on Sketch Engine. The number above refers to the number of participants in this specific event. All other events and activities (translation editathons, corpus compilation and analysis) well be performed without additional funding. |
| Number of editors | 15 | The training will concern the use of Wikipedia pages for corpus linguistics, so we expect all participants to become editors to experiment with the creation of create parallel resources on the basis of their translated Wikipedia pages- |
| Number of organizers | 4 | The organizer (see team project above) will cover expertise in English Linguistics and Translation Studies, Corpus Linguistics, ICT for Translation. A Wikimedian will co-organize all activities. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 30 |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
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- 20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)
Not sure, I need support.
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NvGy5uXlFT_bRfQJz030nXAp0ICBL2SenoQssCiam6k/edit?usp=sharing
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
2720 EUR
- 22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.
3089.95 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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