Hi Pine,

My response is not directly related to editor contributions to Japanese Wikipedia but you may still be interested to know:

We are aiming to learn more about Japanese Wikipedia readers (aim = we're interested, we asked a member of the Japanese Wikipedia community to help us translate the survey and other documentation to Japanese). You can follow the task at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151835 This is a follow up on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour to assess whether the results of that study holds true across languages. The other languages we're considering are Spanish, Hindi, and maybe Arabic (the list of languages is not fixed at this moment, but we do have translations for Spanish and Hindi ready as well).

Anyhow, follow up the task if you're interested to keep track of it. :)

Best,
Leila


On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:
The topic of audiences was discussed at today's WMF Metrics and
Activities meeting.

Looking at https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/Sitemap.htm, and sorting by
editors (5+ per million speakers), there are some language communities
that appear to have high participation rates on their language's
edition of Wikipedia, but I hear very little from them in meta
discussions. Japanese Wikipedia comes to mind in particular, with its
large number of primary + secondary language speakers. I'd be
interested in learning more about what makes their community's edition
of Wikipedia so successful in terms of a high proportion of Japanese
speakers contributing to the site, that could be applied to other
language editions.

Could WMF direct more resources to studying the successes on Japanese
Wikipedia, and how information about those successes could be applied
to other language editions of Wikipedia?

Pine

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