Good questions and comments from the other participants.
All I would like to add is that I found the infographic clear and readable,
with good style.
I would have preferred the "human" character to have curves instead of
sharp corners, and by the minor nature of that quibble you can gauge my
level of satisfaction!
On 28 Jun 2015 01:16, "Douglas Scott" <douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everyone,
Thanks for the feedback. Jacques I have included your suggestions into the
latest version which you can find at the link I previously sent out (see
link provided again below). William I have increased the size of the map,
has that made it any easier to read that section? Also in answer to your
question about updates, I have been told that the survey ended around last
week so it should not need updating, however if it is still going on then I
will update it as soon as I am back from Mexico which should be around the
end of July.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Infographic-WMZA_survey_results_201…
I have also just added the age of our 'average' (admittedly a term I am
using very broadly here) South African Wikipedian.
Cheers and thanks for the feedback,
Douglas.
On 27 June 2015 at 22:38, Jacques Avril du Toit <dtoitj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Douglas
Congratulations on a job well-done! I have browsed through your findings
and I don’t have much to add. Here are a few suggestions, but these are
not
compulsory to integrate though:
· Instead of survey, indicate it was an *online *survey. This will
indicate that you have taken into account the online research ethics
involved in approaching and dealing with your respondents.
· “The majority of editors are based in only two provinces.”
I agree with your response relating to the ‘first language’ issue. I
think
this question is a problem in many “[research]
contexts” of South Africa.
I mean: Should participants indicate their ‘home language’ (spoken at
home), of their school attended, or the languages used in the workplace
(‘language of wider communication’)? To be fair, think if 40% of your
population indicated that they speak English as a L1, just integrate it
as
that.
Otherwise, good job! All the best!
Regards
JdT
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 8:02 PM, William Stucke <William(a)stucke.co.za>
wrote:
> Thank you for doing this, Douglas. Very impressive. I presume that you
> will update the results with the figures obtained at the end of the
month?
>
> I didn't spot any obvious typos, but the image with the numbers on the
> map isn't all that easy to read. Other than that, I think that it's
great.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> William Stucke
> 079-501-0850
> William(a)stucke.co.za
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wikimediaza-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:
> wikimediaza-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Scott
> Sent: 27 June 2015 08:46 AM
> To: wikimediaza
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia ZA] Draft infographic of the Wikimedia ZA survey
> results
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am getting some feedback that my last email come through with nothing
> attached. I think the file was large enought (3MB) that the mailing
list
> dropped it. So I have uploaded it to commons
and you can see it there
at
> the link here:
>
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Infographic-WMZA_survey_results_201…
Cheers,
Douglas.
On 26 June 2015 at 00:59, Douglas Scott <douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello everyone,
As many of you know Wikimedia SOuth Africa has been conducting a
survey over the past few months of South African based editors. So if
you were on Wikipedia recently and saw a banner asking you to
participate in a survey, this is it. I have spent much of the day
today going over some of the results of the survey and have summarised
some of the more interesting results into a draft infographic (it is
still very rough). I am planning to display it at this year's
Wikimania which will be happening in less than
3 weeks time.
Please let me know what you think of it and please let me know if you
spot any errors. I am pretty terrable at copy editing, especially
spelling. It is meant to be printed out on an A0 sized poster -so
please excuse its rather large size- as well as what ever I can fit on
a smaller
flyer.
Cheers,
Douglas
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