WikiIndaba 2023/Submissions/Reading Wikipedia in Swahili, Yoruba, French, and English: Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa
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ID : | Reading Wikipedia in Swahili, Yoruba, French, and English: Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa | ||
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Author(s): Michael Raish | Username(s): Michael Raish (WMF) | Type of submission: lecture | |
Affiliation: Wikimedia Foundation | Theme(s): Strategy, Readership, Diversity | ||
Abstract:
Conducted on behalf of the WMF Web team, the Reading Wikipedia project connected with readers of four sub-Saharan African Wikipedias in order to shed light on what they “think they are doing” as they read Wikipedia. The WMF Design Strategy team partnered with YUX, a Senegal-based research agency, to conduct dozens of reader interviews and deploy a large-scale survey to African readers of English, French, Yoruba, and Kiswahili Wikipedias. Focusing on readers’ motivations, the navigational structures they perceive and use, and the ways in which they store, access and share information, this project sheds new light on sub-Saharan African readers of small, medium, and large Wikipedias. For example, interviews revealed that:
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Level of advancement: advanced (project completed in May, 2023) | ||
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Extra information: Presenting the results of a mixed-methods study of reader beliefs and behaviors within four sub-Saharan African Wikipedias. - Etherpad | |||
How will this session be beneficial for the communities in the region?
This presentation will highlight new findings about these African reading communities and present opportunities for future engagement by the broader Movement. |
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