I'm here to help you Mapaseka. On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Douglas Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Ian, > > That is a very good suggestion and a couple of very good questions for the > next survey. I would also be interested to see the results of that. > > Thanks, > > Douglas. > > On 28 June 2015 at 15:34, 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 > > > > > > -- > 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
