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Afrikaans Wikipedia

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Afrikaans - (af)

Questionnaire

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Contributors

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  • Wikimedia Statistics can be difficult to interpret. What is your impression, how many steady contributors do you have?
    • We seem to have about ten steady contributors - although not always the same ten. Some users have sporadic bursts of contribution, when they'd be very busy at the encyclopaedia, interspersed with quiet periods, when The Real Life keeps them busy. Anrie 12:16, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Are your contributors mostly native speakers?
  • Where do your contributors live (regions/country)?
  • How common is it that your contributors meet in real life?

Other Wikipedias

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  • Do you have special contacts with other Wikipedias (maybe in related languages)?
  • Do you translate a lot from other Wikipedias? Which ones?
    • I used to translate a lot from the English Wikipedia and occasionly from the Dutch one. Lately I've been concentrating on gathering my own material, so as to avoid mirroring articles. Anrie 12:33, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Apart from English Wikipedia there is some translation from German and French Wikipedias. Most templates and other intricate stuff comes from the English Wikipedia. Laurens-af 18:09, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Organization and support

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Your Wikipedia and the linguistic community

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  • Is there a language institution for your language, like an Academy, or a club of people interested in your language? Do you have contact with them?
  • Who (else) supports you?
  • What does the public outreach for your edition look like? Do you have fliers, give lectures, training etc.?
    • None so far. Anrie 12:33, 3 October 2008 (UTC). Some of us took part in a wikipedia Academy with Jimmy Wales but this was mainly aimed at promotion of Wikipedia amongts speakers of other indigenous languages of South Africa whose Wikipedias are still very small. Laurens-af 18:20, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Do you get feedback from readers?
  • What other encyclopedias exist in your language?

Content

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  • Does your edition concentrate on certain topics, like your region and language, or Latin Wikipedia on Roman history and Christianity?
    • Certain users seem to concentrate on certain topics, for example Russian history, economics, technology, chemistry, French and American geography, etc. I try to cover a wide spectrum of topics, but have lately focused more on South Africa fauna. Anrie 12:33, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Did your edition enjoy text donations, for example from older encyclopedias?

Language

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  • Is there a generally accepted norm about your language (spelling, dictionary, pronunciation)?
    • To some degree, but there are more than enough words that have more than one accepted form. Anrie 12:33, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Yes, we subscribe to the exiting official guidelines as articulated in Spelling rules and authoritative dictionaries. in specific cases these have been made explicit as in the case of Article Title guidelines (af:Wikipedia:Titelriglyne) Laurens-af 18:28, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • How do you deal with different spellings, dialects etc. (like B.E. lift and A.E. elevator)?
    • Very carefully. Check to see which form is most-often used by the scholars, or the media (thus the most familiar) or preferred by dictionaries. Anrie 12:33, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • No, Afrikaans spelling is standardised. Some word have more than one acceptable form and for some concepts there are more than one form. In these cases our preference is for the more conservative (traditional form) - Sjina rather than China for instance. Laurens-af 18:28, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

See also

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