Welcome[edit]

I am a student at the University of Michigan currently studying abroad in Freiburg. This is my super cool user page for my Wikipedia account.

Here is the user page of our instructor

Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gAoeTZCwlxbcrIsq59HHHyyzne1ai93LUc1sux87ZKQ/edit?usp=sharing

Weekly Progress[edit]


Week #	Accomplishments	Set Backs	Time Spent
1	Setting up Wikipedia Account Finishing Section 4 of the "Wahlwort" Translation	Unfamiliarity with the topic of "Wahlwörter" made the translation of the section more difficult.	40 mins
2	Starting the translating Jakobuskirche (Oberkotzau) page	The many links to German pages that also did not have translations made adding proper links to the translation difficult	90 mins
3	Finishing the translation of the Jakobuskirche page	Figuring out how to add pictures and categories to the page was a challenge, but with the help of the class' guide page I was able to do it	90 mins
4	Began translation of the Tankō page	The page's use of Japanese terminology, and the complex nature of the article's content, made translation of the page difficult	110 mins
5	Finished translation of the Tankō page	Translating the rest of the page was not too difficult	80 mins
6	Translation of the Augustin Lippi page	Some of the people and places referenced by the German article were relatively obscure, and did not have proper links attached	100 mins
7	Translation of the Allophyes corsica page	The article was very scientific nature, and some biology terms in German did not have clear English translations	100 mins
8	Translation of the Trier English Drama page	The article was fairly simple to translate	60 mins
9	Finalizing the last two pages in order to turn them in for credit	Not being able to get checking from the professor made things slightly more difficult, but in the end my previous experience with the pages I translated before it made me feel fairly prepared	90 mins
10	Working on the Hasenleiten Parish Church page	The structure of the page was difficult to translate to a certain degree	90 mins
11	Finishing Hasenleiten Parish Church translation	The remainder of the article was not exceedingly challenging	50 mins
12	Ernst Philipp Rosenkranz translation	The article was not too challenging to translate, save for one source which had to be reformatted into English	45 mins

Assignment 1: Wahlwort Section 4[edit]

Der Grund, als Wahlwörter mehr oder weniger sinnvolle Wörter der deutschen Sprache zu wählen, häufig Komposita, also zusammengesetzte Substantive, und nicht etwa irgendwelche sinnlosen Zufallstexte, wie CIHJT UUHML, ist darin zu sehen, dass dem befugten Empfänger der Nachricht so signalisiert werden konnte, dass er den verschlüsselten Funkspruch fehlerfrei entschlüsselt hatte. Allerdings war vorgeschrieben, dass ein Wahlwort nicht in Zusammenhang mit dem eigentlichen Nachrichteninhalt des Funkspruchs stehen durfte. Und selbstverständlich durfte es auch nicht „gegen Zucht und Ordnung verstoßen“.^[1]

Wahlwörter kamen auch in Zusammenhang mit anderen Chiffriermaschinen zum Einsatz, beispielsweise beim „Geheimschreiber“ Siemens & Halske T52.^[2]

The rationale for choosing more or less meaningless German words as wahlworts (specifically compound words, often compound nouns) as opposed to random text such as CIHJT UUHML, was so that the authorized recipient could verify that his deciphering of the radio message was error-free. However, according to regulations, wahlworts were required to be entirely unrelated to the content of the actual radio message, and to not “infringe on discipline and order.”^[1]

Wahlworts were also used in conjunction with other ciphering machines such as the "Geheimschreiber“ ("Secret Writer") Siemens & Halske T52.^[3]

Assignment 2[edit]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakobuskirche_(Oberkotzau)

Assignment 3[edit]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank%C5%8D

Assignment 4[edit]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shield_toad/Augustin_Lippi#Life_and_Work

Assignment 5[edit]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasenleiten_Parish_Church

Assignment 6[edit]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Philipp_Rosenkranz

^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference OKM-S9 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Bengt Beckman: Arne Beurling und Hitlers Geheimschreiber. Springer-Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-540-31290-0, S. 180.
^ Bengt Beckman: Arne Beurling und Hitlers Geheimschreiber. Springer-Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-540-31290-0, S. 180.

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[2] Bengt Beckman: Arne Beurling und Hitlers Geheimschreiber. Springer-Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-540-31290-0, S. 180.

[3] Bengt Beckman: Arne Beurling und Hitlers Geheimschreiber. Springer-Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-540-31290-0, S. 180.

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