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@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@stucke.co.za
-----Original Message----- From: wikimediaza-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: wikimediaza-bounces@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_2015...
Cheers,
Douglas.
On 26 June 2015 at 00:59, Douglas Scott douglas.i.scott@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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