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Babel's Tower: South Africa's Wikipedias
This dissertation is a comparative examination firstly of usage of, and contribution to, the Wikipedias in ten of South Africa’s eleven official languages, and secondly of possible measures to address the situation discovered in the first investigative stage. The historical context is reviewed and i...
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| author | Graaf, Michael |
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| description | This dissertation is a comparative examination firstly of usage of, and contribution to, the Wikipedias in ten of South Africa’s eleven official languages, and secondly of possible measures to address the situation discovered in the first investigative stage. The historical context is reviewed and it is argued that the number of official languages (and therefore Wikipedias) results from decisions made in colonial and apartheid eras. Public-domain usage and contribution statistics from the Wikimedia Foundation are analysed, revealing poor growth in most cases; possible interventions via both cultural/educational strategies and technological options are reviewed. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/31291 Babel's Tower: South Africa's Wikipedias Graaf, Michael Densmore, Melissa Johnson, D computer science This dissertation is a comparative examination firstly of usage of, and contribution to, the Wikipedias in ten of South Africa’s eleven official languages, and secondly of possible measures to address the situation discovered in the first investigative stage. The historical context is reviewed and it is argued that the number of official languages (and therefore Wikipedias) results from decisions made in colonial and apartheid eras. Public-domain usage and contribution statistics from the Wikimedia Foundation are analysed, revealing poor growth in most cases; possible interventions via both cultural/educational strategies and technological options are reviewed. 2020-02-25T09:42:03Z 2020-02-25T09:42:03Z 2019 2020-02-25T06:22:39Z Master Thesis Masters MPhil http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31291 eng application/pdf Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science |
| spellingShingle | computer science Graaf, Michael Babel's Tower: South Africa's Wikipedias |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Babel's Tower: South Africa's Wikipedias |
| title_full | Babel's Tower: South Africa's Wikipedias |
| title_fullStr | Babel's Tower: South Africa's Wikipedias |
| title_full_unstemmed | Babel's Tower: South Africa's Wikipedias |
| title_short | Babel's Tower: South Africa's Wikipedias |
| title_sort | babel s tower south africa s wikipedias |
| topic | computer science |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31291 |
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