Web-based collaboration in translation competence development

Interconnectedness in technologically enhanced learning environments has allowed traditional translation classrooms to empower their students and foster new participatory frameworks based on collaboration, growth, and shared understanding of professional and community practices. In this highly technological scenario, Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, stands as one of the best-known and most successful examples of non-professional online collaboration around the world, offering an interesting breeding ground for translator trainees to develop self-reflective, critical spaces where they can engage in constant dialogue with other communities of translator trainees around the globe. With the purpose of helping expand Wikipedia in languages other than English while socialising inter-cultural agents through real discursive practices, the educational network “Teaching translation via Wikipedia” was born, gathering higher education institutions and translation classrooms in countries such as Spain, Oman, Poland, Malaysia or Algeria. United in diversity, this paper argues that a platform like Wikipedia may be an effective channel to transform the translation classroom and turn it into an emancipatory space where diverse knowledges co-exist, thrive, and enrich each other while forging future generations of translations and helping democratise knowledge around the globe

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