Put your hands together for the Wikipedia survey volunteer translators : Sharing Nicely

We (UNU MERIT CCG) released the first overview results from the Wikipedia survey today. Erik Moeller has a longer blog-post about the survey and the data. He calls it a “landmark moment”.

Running a survey in 20 languages is not a trivial feat, and some of the people behind the scenes without whom this would not have been possible are listed below. They are members of the Wikipedia community and volunteered their time to translate a long (loooooooooooong) survey into a potpourri of world languages. Thank you! (I don’t have URLs for any of them, so if you are in this list, and would like a link to your blog or home-page, send me an email).

Volunteer translators:

Jeandré du Toit
Mohamed Magdy
Meno25
Toni Pulido
Jordi Roqué Figuls
Xavier SMP
Zirland
MF-Warburg
Tim Landscheidt
Michael Bimmler
Arno Lagrange
Ariel T. Glenn
Ziko van Dijk
Verónica Rivero
Salvador Espada
Sébastien Beyou
Plyd
Delphine Ménard
Philippe Verdy
Daniel U. Thibault
Maximilian Hasler
Rex
Alberto
Morris Mastini
Federico Leva
Hatukanezumi
Naoko Komura
Henrdrik Maryns
Robin P.
Wojciech Pędzich
McMonster
Jennifer Hobbs
Thomas Buckup
Aleksandr Sigachov
Ilya Haykinson
Mayooranathan Ratnavelupillai
BalaSundaraRaman
C.R. Selvakumar
Manop Kaewmoracharoen
Nguyễn Thanh Quang
Trần Vĩnh Tân
Ting Chen
Andrew Leung

http://hblog.org HFord

Congrats, P! Fascinating results. Would love to hear your take on some of the findings e.g. low female contributors?
- http://bokaap.net/blog Philipp Schmidt
  
  Hey Heather: I think it’s partly the self-selection bias of the sample. There was no way to do a randomized representative sample with an online community like this. So, lower percentages in the respondents, do not necessarily mean that this is the case for the universe of wikipedia contributors. On the other hand, the number of respondents is so large that we can infer certain trends at least. My impression at Wikimania last year (using a completely non-scientific approach of gut feeling) confirms this, there were more male participants than female ones. I’ll start looking at gender differences for countries and age groups – and let you know if I find something interesting. Thanks for the comment!
http://blogs.ubc.ca/brian/ Brian

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