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Thai (ภาษาไทย)

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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?
    • May be about 50. Just a guess. --Lerdsuwa 15:55, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • I guess there are about 50-100 users edit Thai WP everyday or every week (registered users, not count some IP addresses, such as 203.147.0.44, 202.28.27.3/.6). In my opinion, most of ~50000 user accounts are not edit or write anything in Thai Wikipedia, or they are registering for fun (or playing). I found 6 usernames registered in a same time (8 September 2008)! --Love Krittaya 08:36, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • For users who logged in, just check the stat. For users who don't, estimation from IP log could be possible. I personally feel inconvenience to log in (technical problems and others), but regularly edit things. Logged-in-only-for-page-creation restriction in English Wikipedia pushed me away from starting new articles -- 58.64.121.124 19:05, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Are your contributors mostly native speakers?
    • Yes. Nearly all of them are Thai native speakers and those who are studying in foreign countries, e.g. USA. Some of contributors other than Thais, which is significant enough to notice, are some German contributors. Else speakers are mostly bots. --Passawuth 14:31, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • I feel this question a bit irrelevant, since Thai language is not much used in other part of the world anyway. So there are basically Thai speakers (who are mostly native) and non-Thai speakers ... non-native Thai speakers are not that much, our language is not like English -- 58.64.121.124 19:05, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Where do your contributors live (regions/country)?
    • Nearly all of our contributors are Thais, so most of them live in Bangkok and every other regions of Thailand. Some of them live in Germany and USA for those who are studying. Some live in Vietnam as well.--Passawuth 14:31, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • and other European countries like UK and France, and Japan.. it's the Internet. Thai Wikipedia never have any kind of demographic survey anyway, to my little knowledge -- 58.64.121.124 19:05, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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?
    • Most of us either write on our Thai sources or translate from English Wikipedias. There are some that are translate from French and Italian Wikipedias, which these are mostly beautiful and useful templates. Some we found are better than the English one. There are, though, quite a lot of contributors, including myself, translates a lot from English Wikipedia and is a sanctuary for technical problems or with policies. --Passawuth 14:31, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Some are also from Japanese, those articles about Japanese actors/singers. --Lerdsuwa 15:58, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Organization and support

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Your Wikipedia and the linguistic community

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Content

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Language

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  • 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)?
    • We have many dialects, but we have single writing. Everyone who speaks different dialects write the same writings. There is no problem about words like British and American. However, there are currently some disputed foreign transliterations and misunderstand spellings (of which can be single spelling sourced from Royal Institute of Thailand). --Passawuth 14:31, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Sometimes one meaning can be referred by many words. The problem is to choose which one for the title of the articles. --Octahedron80 03:22, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See also

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