Thanks Ian, Was not aware Wikipedia is available local African languages. Would love to get involved in those.
On Sunday, June 28, 2015, Ian Gilfillan <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for putting this together Douglas. > > An idea for the next survey are some questions on editing Wikipedias in > languages besides English. Something like: > > - Are you aware that Wikipedia exists in (list languages here) > - If yes, have you ever edited one of them? Which? > - If no (the question above), why not? > > And then linking these results with the respondent's first language. It > would be interesting to see what percentage of respondents that speak a > language as a first-language edit that wikipedia vs English, what > percentage of non-first language speakers, etc. > > ian > > On 27/06/2015 15:07, Douglas Scott wrote: > >> 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. >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaZA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza > -- Regards, Mapaseka Sent from my iPad _______________________________________________ WikimediaZA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza
