Hi Ian, you did a great overview!
I propose also to look at some quality indicators because just article
numbers cannot say if people will read the contributions. There are
content benchmarks like the "1,000/10,000 topics every wikipedia should
have" lists, and some ideas to look up readership.
I posted my remarks on the blog here
http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?p=1980&cpage=1#comment-373655
Cheers Ingo
Am 29.11.2016 um 16:54 schrieb
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> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 12:03:51 +0200
> From: Ian Gilfillan <wikimediaza(a)greenman.co.za>
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> Subject: [African Wikimedians] African language Wikipedia update
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> Hi
>
> Here's another African language Wikipedia update:
> http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?p=1980
>
Concerning African language wikipedias: I follow Asaf's advice and post
my text here:
Hi *Ian, thanks for your continuous look at African language wikipedias.*
I agree with you that Afrikaans is indeed the best quality among these.
But *to look at only article numbers can be very misleading *as many
have learned since Waraywaray passed a million articles. According to
the story I remember, this guy from Sweden wanted to honour the language
of his wife from the Philippines – and knew how to write programs that
translate certain types of easily translatable short entries from
English.No idea if that stuff is readable. A huge wikipedia. Is it a
“success”?
For evaluation I propose to go for a *mix of indicators*. Article number
is for very small wikipedias a good indicator.
Beyond say 10,000 we should *also look for some quality indicators.*
An easy one is the ranking in the *1000-article-index*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_sample_of_articles
Here Afrikaans is at 22/100, Swahili at 17/100 and all others down at
7/100 and less.
Similar the *10,000 article list*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_expanded_sample_of_ar…:
Afrikaans at 27%, Swahili at 17%, Malagasy here better at 14%, the rest
down below 10% of reachable points.
*Pageview numbers *are important (who reads the stuff??) but difficult
to compare because of the numbers of speakers vary so much between
languages. I propose to *look for the market share in the “home
country”* (Like Afrikaans/South Africa, Swahiili/Tanzania-Kenya, Amharic
– Ethiopia), using
https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReport*PageViewsPerCountr….
These figures are statistically perhaps not sooo strong for some
countries (because of relatively small view numbers over all). It is
also possible to look at the readership of a language by checking
“Pageviews per language”
https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReport*PageViewsPerLangua…
showing the countries where requests come from. Many smaller African
language versions have their readers abroad, in USA or Europe (the
homesick African student? Exception; Igbo!).
Interestingly but not surprisingly *no African language wikipedia has
more than 10% share of overall wikipedia views in the “home country” (so
far!).* Top are Somali in Somalia (very small database) and Swahili for
Tanzania with 8-9 %, the large majority reads English wikipedia.
Afrikaans reaches less than 2% in South Africa wikipedia lookups,
Amharic gets 4% in Ethiopia. Yoruba is not visible in Nigeria wikipedia
lookups, all its readers seem to be abroad, same for Malagasy in
Madagascar..
I try to balance that with a check using the *langviews analysis tool
*at https://tools.wmflabs.org/langviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org
I go for some locations which will probably not be searched a lot from
outside the country. (Not for Cape Town, not for Dar es Salaam, as these
are sought from all over the world. I assume that small places will be
looked up rather by people inside the country). I get a comparison of
language searchs for the entry if it is connected to wikidata. My random
check shows a surprisingly strong position of Swahili in the
interlanguage search compared to English.
*
**Places in Tanzania*
Pos. Lang. Name lookup/day
1 en Mbozi District 6 / day
2 sw Mbozi 3 / day
1 en Mbeya Rural District 3 / day
2 sw Mbeya Vijijini 1 / day
1 en Mpwapwa District 4 / day
2 sw Wilaya ya Mpwapwa 4 / day
1 en Kigoma Region 34 / day
2 sw Mkoa wa Kigoma 28 / day
1 en Sumbawanga 15 / day
4 sw Sumbawanga (mji) 1 / day
1 en Tabora 39 / day
4 sw Tabora (mji) 6 / day
1 en Tabora Region 20 / day
2 sw Mkoa wa Tabora 17 / day
This very tentative comparison puts Swahili in a stronger position even
compared to Afrikaans!
*Places in South Africa*
Pos. Lang. Name lookup/day
1 en Dordrecht, Eastern Cape 11 / day
5 af Dordrecht, Oos-Kaap 1 / day
1 en Noordhoek, Cape Town 26 / day
4 af Noordhoek 0 / day
1 en Melkbosstrand 28 / day
2 af Melkbosstrand 1 / day
1 en Langebaanweg 5 / day
3 af Langebaanweg 0 / day
1 en Velddrif 15 / day
3 af Velddrif 2 / day
Ok, this just as some indicators for ways to look for quality. Because
just quantity should not be the decisive factor when looking where to
invest energy and time.
Cheers
Kipala – Ingo
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> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 23:09:23 +0000
> From: Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
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> Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 8,
> Issue 129 African language Wikipedia update
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> Thank you, Ingo. I found myself agreeing with everything you said in the
> blog comment. It is perhaps worth pasting on this mailing list as well, as
> it would reach more people.
>
> A.
>
FYI,
Best,
Isaac
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Hi All,
I think tomorrow is the Global Reach Office Hours for Sub-Saharan Africa.
It will be nice to have many join in.
The details again:
Agenda
- Introduction of Global Reach Team and Office Hours
- Why Global Reach? Mission and goals of the team
- Wikipedia Zero
- Current initiatives and pilot partnerships to address awareness and
readership
- Understanding our users (New Readers)
- Next office hours: Nigeria phone survey results + countries comparison
- Wiki Indaba - Ghana
- Q&A
Date: Thursday 11/17/2016
Time: 19:00 Lagos; 21:00 Nairobi; 10:00 San Francisco
Language: English
Location: Google Hangout on Air (https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/ytl/
Y4P36GMpGTbFKTGeDO5pz0cOf2mB8hbzqvkb2jKxSgw=?hl=en_US&authuser=0)
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8OqXzNloEc
Cheers,
On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 7:48 AM, Jack Rabah <jrabah(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Thanks, Felix.
>
> Dear all,
>
> Please see below our agenda and meeting links on Google Hangout and
> Youtube to watch live:
>
>
>
> -
>
> Agenda
> -
>
> Introduction of Global Reach Team and Office Hours
> -
>
> Why Global Reach? Mission and goals of the team
> -
>
> Wikipedia Zero
> -
>
> Current initiatives and pilot partnerships to address awareness
> and readership
> -
>
> Understanding our users (New Readers)
> -
>
> Next office hours: Nigeria phone survey results + countries
> comparison
> -
>
> Wiki Indaba - Ghana
> -
>
> Q&A
>
>
> Google Hangout link: https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/ytl/
> Y4P36GMpGTbFKTGeDO5pz0cOf2mB8hbzqvkb2jKxSgw=?hl=en_US&authuser=0
>
> YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8OqXzNloEc
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
> Best,
> Jack
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Felix Nartey <flixtey(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> There will be a Sub-Saharan Africa office hours with the WMF Global Reach
>> Team on Thursday November 17th.
>>
>> Please see meeting details below:
>>
>> Date: Thursday 11/17/2016
>>
>> Time: 19:00 Lagos; 21:00 Nairobi; 10:00 San Francisco
>>
>> Language: English
>>
>> Location: Google Hangout on Air (link will be shared soon)
>>
>> This will be an informal meeting with the Global Reach Team, to share
>> more about their work and to provide some time and space to learn about all
>> the amazing work happening in the region. The agenda for the meeting will
>> be shared with all soon.
>>
>>
>> Please direct all related questions to Jack Rabah, copied in this mail
>> and remember to save the date!
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
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>
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