Hi Frank, That is a good question and I suspect it might have made a small difference if the survey was done in other languages however I doubt it would have made much of a difference to people answering the question or even the results. Largely because English is the default lingua franca of South Africa which a great many people in South Africa can understand and converse in.
The other reason I doubt it is because apart from Afrikaans Wikipedia all the other African language Wikipedias (isiXhosa, isiZulu, and so on) have go so few articles and editors on them that they are basically dead. I hope that this will change in the future as it would be fantastic to have vibrant Wikipedia's in all of South Africa's languages. This is another indicator that there just arent likely to be very many people who speak those languages at a first language level out there editing Wikipedia. But that is just a theory. Ultimately the only way to truly know for sure would be to do the next survey in as many different languages as possible and need to budget for the extra cost and time of organising its translation (which should not in any way be an excuse not to translate). Cheers, Douglas. On 27 June 2015 at 13:00, Frank Naude <[email protected]> wrote: > Is the conclusion that "the average Wikipedia user in SA speaks English as > first language" valid? If I remember correctly, the survey was presented in > English. Would the results be different if it was in Zulu or Afrikaans, for > example? > > Best regards. > Frank > > > 2015-06-27 9:43 GMT+02:00 Isla Haddow-Flood <[email protected]>: > > > Looks great, and very interesting reading!! Well done team WMZA > > > > Excuse the brevity, sent from my iPhone. > > > > > On 27 Jun 2015, at 09:01, Gwinyai Masukume <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > Great work Douglas! > > > > > > Warm regards, > > > Gwinyai > > > > > > On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Douglas Scott < > > [email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > >> Hi Everyone, > > >> > > >> I am getting some feedback that my last email come through with > nothing > > >> attached. I think the file was large enought (3MB) that the mailing > > list > > >> dropped it. So I have uploaded it to commons and you can see it there > > at > > >> the link here: > > >> > > >> > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Infographic-WMZA_survey_results_2015.png > > >> > > >> Cheers, > > >> > > >> Douglas. > > >> > > >>> On 26 June 2015 at 00:59, Douglas Scott <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > >>> > > >>> Hello everyone, > > >>> > > >>> As many of you know Wikimedia SOuth Africa has been conducting a > survey > > >>> over the past few months of South African based editors. So if you > > were > > >> on > > >>> Wikipedia recently and saw a banner asking you to participate in a > > >> survey, > > >>> this is it. I have spent much of the day today going over some of > the > > >>> results of the survey and have summarised some of the more > interesting > > >>> results into a draft infographic (it is still very rough). I am > > planning > > >>> to display it at this year's Wikimania which will be happening in > less > > >> than > > >>> 3 weeks time. > > >>> > > >>> Please let me know what you think of it and please let me know if you > > >> spot > > >>> any errors. I am pretty terrable at copy editing, especially > spelling. > > >> It > > >>> is meant to be printed out on an A0 sized poster -so please excuse > its > > >>> rather large size- as well as what ever I can fit on a smaller flyer. > > >>> > > >>> Cheers, > > >>> > > >>> Douglas > > >>> > > >>> -- > > >>> Douglas Ian Scott > > >>> 司道格 > > >>> Skype: douglas0scott > > >>> South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727 > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Douglas Ian Scott > > >> 司道格 > > >> Skype: douglas0scott > > >> South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727 > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> WikimediaZA mailing list > > >> [email protected] > > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza > > > _______________________________________________ > > > WikimediaZA mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza > > > > _______________________________________________ > > WikimediaZA mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza > > > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaZA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza > -- Douglas Ian Scott 司道格 Skype: douglas0scott South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727 _______________________________________________ WikimediaZA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza
