Thursday, April 16th, 2009...10:14 am

Put your hands together for the Wikipedia survey volunteer translators

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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

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  • HFord
    April 17th, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    Congrats, P! Fascinating results. Would love to hear your take on some of the findings e.g. low female contributors?

  • Philipp Schmidt
    April 20th, 2009 at 8:26 am

    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!

  • Brian
    April 27th, 2009 at 8:44 pm

    [One more set of hands clapping...]