UPDATE RESULTS 2 - 2022 Scanlator Community Survey

[Yarnball]

Hey! In 2022, the scanlation community here and elsewhere on the internet was surveyed to collect some large-scale data on the scan scene. Questions asked scanlators what roles they did, what languages they scanlated from, why they scanlated, whether they used MTL, etc etc.


Summary results of the 945 responses to the survey came out in 2023, and now this update takes a deeper look at some generational trends among scanlators. Do earlier scanlators and recent scanlators think and act the same? How do: roles, opinions, platforms, habits and more shift throughout the years?

Read on cubari: https://cubari.moe/read/gist/cmF3L1BlaW50cmVzc2Uvc2NzdS9tYXN0ZXIvU2NhbmxhdGlvbiUyMENvbW11bml0eSUyMFN1cnZleSUyMDIwMjIlMjAtJTIwR2VuZXJhdGlvbnMlMjBSZXBvcnQuanNvbg/


Download to read as pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12dvDQQziCNVeyWLjr4w84wtSf5baX2cO/view?usp=drive_link

Condensed thumbnails:











Have spent far far too many hours assembling these images in ps, hope something here will be interesting to you.

 

[Tony_Mushah]

Interesting... very interesting...

Speaking of the Bato.to take over,
It is understandable since Bato.to is mostly over the top answers on Google Manga Chapter Search.
And I also think Bato.to is less restricted than MangaDex when it came to uploading stuff,
They allow uploading official stuff even though MangaDex don't.
Still Bato.to uploaders sometimes "aggregate" MangaDex Chapters.

Anyway,
I am not a scanlator (yet)
but thanks for the result!

 

[Carn109]

Thanks for putting this info together!

 

[Yarnball]

Back with another update! This time on gender and scanlation, of all the things. Does gender relate to scanlation behaviour? What platforms or roles have a gendered lean?

Some graphs for you!












(Some analysis decisions are explained more in the links, methodology is same as in Jan. Ran into image upload limits so slides 8 and 10 are in the links!)

Cubari mirror: https://cubari.moe/read/gist/cmF3L1BlaW50cmVzc2Uvc2NzdS9tYXN0ZXIvU2NhbmxhdGlvbiUyMENvbW11bml0eSUyMFN1cnZleSUyMDIwMjIlMjAtJTIwR2VuZGVyJTIwTWluaSUyMFJlcG9ydC5qc29u/


Download to read as pdf:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AM0j8BGGZs9d3l48ViFdk1kurHRb9OMW/view?usp=sharing

 

[Yarnball]

Hello! Jumping in again with another update, with a focus on the differences between manga/manhua/manhwa scanlators. Is the distribution of roles different by source language? Do translators of certain languages average higher fluency?

And here are the graphs!












(Methodology is same as in Jan, please note that sample size limitations are especially relevant!! There's more pages in the links, sorry it's a little messier this time! Getting to the questions that were multiple select is kind of analysis gore.

Cubari: https://cubari.moe/read/gist/cmF3L1...wMjIlMjAtJTIwSlBLUkNOJTIwUmVwb3J0Lmpzb24/1/1/

Download to read as pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AUz0YqLlvJvf8qWZ8QdscVVZm6dVdvRn/view?usp=drive_link

Future suggestions form: https://tally.so/r/w21O79

 

[JVick]

Hello! Jumping in again with another update, with a focus on the differences between manga/manhua/manhwa scanlators. Is the distribution of roles different by source language? Do translators of certain languages average higher fluency?

Back with another update! This time on gender and scanlation, of all the things. Does gender relate to scanlation behaviour? What platforms or roles have a gendered lean?

And here are the graphs!

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(Methodology is same as in Jan, please note that sample size limitations are especially relevant!! There's more pages in the links, sorry it's a little messier this time! Getting to the questions that were multiple select is kind of analysis gore.

Cubari: https://cubari.moe/read/gist/cmF3L1...wMjIlMjAtJTIwSlBLUkNOJTIwUmVwb3J0Lmpzb24/1/1/

Download to read as pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AUz0YqLlvJvf8qWZ8QdscVVZm6dVdvRn/view?usp=drive_link

Future suggestions form: https://tally.so/r/w21O79

Even the presentations at my work are not as clean as this (and certainly not mine ). That's cool !

 

[Yarnball]

Hey! Here's a bite sized report on MU, a very cool site. Pulling from some of MU's polls (which fun fact inspired parts of the survey questions) and getting a bit into the write-in analysis! There's a lot of pages only included in the cubari/pdf links so please please read it over there haha












tl;dr: go visit mangaupdates.com and profit from their wonderful database!

Taking a break after this, the next report won't be for a while. Please feel free to make suggestions for the next version of the survey in the meantime!

Cubari: https://cubari.moe/read/gist/cmF3L1...ZleSUyMDIwMjIlMjAtJTIwTVUlMjBSZXBvcnQuanNvbg/

Download to read as pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lzl6PvlmQNBNMc8PcImZEQhlzJyUW-wr/view?pli=1

Future suggestions form: https://tally.so/r/w21O79