Enseigner la révision à l'ère des wikis : là où l'on trouve la technologie alors qu'on ne l'attendait plus

Abstract

In academic teaching, there are very few experiences on collaborative wiki revision. In a Quebec university, we experimented upon a wiki revision activity with translation students in their third final year. We specifically chose to revise texts in Wikipedia because its environment shares similarities with the labour market in the language industry and because we believed that the wiki allowed us to achieve the overall objectives of the revision class, such as we define them. Throughout the experience, we monitored the progress of students' revision interventions on Wikipedia texts as well as exchanges taking place between revisees and reviewers. All our research observations were made possible by the convoluted but systematic structure in Wikipedia. Here, we report on the experiment at the Université du Québec en Outaouais and let our academic teaching readers decide whether the exercise is right for them. For us, it was convincing.