Tell us about Japanese Wikipedia

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Japanese Wikipedia

• Japanese (日本語) – ja

Questionaire

Contributors

• Wikimedia Statistics can be difficult to interpret. What is your impression, how many steady contributors do you have?
• 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

• Do you have special contacts with other Wikipedias (maybe in related languages)?
• Do you translate a lot from other Wikipedias? Which ones?

Organization and support

• Is there a Wikimedia chapter in your country? How does your language relate to it?
• Are there work groups in other organizations about Wikipedia?

Your Wikipedia and the linguistic community

• 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 flyers, give lectures, training etc.?
• Do you get feedback from readers?
• What other encyclopedias exist in your language?

Content

• Does your edition concentrate on certain topics, like your region and language, or Latin Wikipedia on Roman history and Christianity?
• Did your edition enjoy text donations, for example from older encyclopedias?

Language

• Is there a generally accepted norm about your language (spelling, dictionary, pronunciation)?
• How do you deal with different spellings, dialects etc. (like B.E. lift and A.E. elevator)?

See also

• Tell us about your Wikipedia

Links

• Main/Front page of your Wikipedia: http://ISOCODE.wikipedia.org