Babel's Tower: South Africa's Wikipedias
| dc.contributor.advisor | Densmore, Melissa | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Johnson, D | |
| dc.contributor.author | Graaf, Michael | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-25T09:42:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-02-25T09:42:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2020-02-25T06:22:39Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Graaf, M. (2019). <i>Babel's Tower: South Africa's Wikipedias</i>. (). ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Computer Science. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31291 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Graaf, Michael. <i>"Babel's Tower: South Africa's Wikipedias."</i> ., ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Computer Science, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31291 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Graaf, M. 2019. Babel's Tower: South Africa's Wikipedias. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Graaf, Michael AB - 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. DA - 2019 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - computer science LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2019 T1 - Babel's Tower: South Africa's Wikipedias TI - Babel's Tower: South Africa's Wikipedias UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31291 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31291 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Graaf M. Babel's Tower: South Africa's Wikipedias. []. ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Computer Science, 2019 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31291 | en_ZA |
| dc.language.rfc3066 | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Computer Science | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Science | |
| dc.subject | computer science | |
| dc.title | Babel's Tower: South Africa's Wikipedias | |
| dc.type | Master Thesis | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | |
| dc.type.qualificationname | MPhil |