Hi Frank,
That is a good question and I suspect it might have made a small difference if the survey was done in other languages however I doubt it would have made much of a difference to people answering the question or even the results. Largely because English is the default lingua franca of South Africa which a great many people in South Africa can understand and converse in.
The other reason I doubt it is because apart from Afrikaans Wikipedia all the other African language Wikipedias (isiXhosa, isiZulu, and so on) have go so few articles and editors on them that they are basically dead. I hope that this will change in the future as it would be fantastic to have vibrant Wikipedia's in all of South Africa's languages. This is another indicator that there just arent likely to be very many people who speak those languages at a first language level out there editing Wikipedia. But that is just a theory.
Ultimately the only way to truly know for sure would be to do the next survey in as many different languages as possible and need to budget for the extra cost and time of organising its translation (which should not in any way be an excuse not to translate).
Cheers,
Douglas.
On 27 June 2015 at 13:00, Frank Naude frank@naude.co.za wrote:
Is the conclusion that "the average Wikipedia user in SA speaks English as first language" valid? If I remember correctly, the survey was presented in English. Would the results be different if it was in Zulu or Afrikaans, for example?
Best regards. Frank
2015-06-27 9:43 GMT+02:00 Isla Haddow-Flood islahf@africacentre.net:
Looks great, and very interesting reading!! Well done team WMZA
Excuse the brevity, sent from my iPhone.
On 27 Jun 2015, at 09:01, Gwinyai Masukume parturitions@gmail.com
wrote:
Great work Douglas!
Warm regards, Gwinyai
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Douglas Scott <
douglas.i.scott@gmail.com>
wrote:
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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