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(a)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(a)africacentre.net>et>:
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(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Great work Douglas!
Warm regards,
Gwinyai
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Douglas Scott <
douglas.i.scott(a)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_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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> Skype: douglas0scott
> South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727
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