Thanks all,
in response to Asaf's question, I considered interviewing selected editors but abandoned the idea when I found that I would have to submit a research plan to the ethics committee and then wait for clearance. I was in a hurry (having switched to this topic only about 5 months before the deadline) and this dissertation came at the end of a very long journey of coursework interrupted by work years.
However, as Ian shows, I could have just run a query and shown that two specific champions made the difference.
The fact that just two dedicated editors made such a difference to the fate of a language's Wikipedia poses a challenge to us, to find/recruit and nurture such people. I am hoping that the newly created post of Wikipedian-in-Residence based in the UNDP's Pretoria office will increase the chances of this happening.
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Today's Topics:
- South Africa's Wikipedias (Michael Graaf)
- Re: South Africa's Wikipedias (Asaf Bartov)
- Re: South Africa's Wikipedias (Ian Gilfillan)
- Re: South Africa's Wikipedias (Adjoa Linda Fletcher)
- Re: South Africa's Wikipedias (Sherry Antoine)
Message: 1 Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 15:40:31 +0200 From: Michael Graaf graaf.michael@gmail.com To: african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [African Wikimedians] South Africa's Wikipedias Message-ID: <CANd2mJAg9MoGs= pzKzYKc7T2BZTBVou7iTruyedKh8FaJffkpA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Dear all, I hereby share my dissertation on the above topic in the hope that it may be of interest:
https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/handle/11427/31291/thesis_sci_2019_graaf_mi...
Best regards,
-- Michael Graaf, M.I.T.(UCT)
Researcher, Editor & Community Informatics Practitioner
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