Editing BBC Domesday Project (section)

== Language and regional issues ==
An initial decision to only support the entry of text in English for the Domesday discs led to a dispute involving Welsh schools in areas where local education authorities supported both English and Welsh as first languages:
{{blockquote|There's no way you can ask children whose first language is Welsh to write about their local area in a foreign language.|Charles Davies, Domesday co-ordinator for [[Clwyd]]<ref name="acornuser198509" />}}

A compromise saw the BBC allowing ten pages of Welsh text that were to be accompanied by ten pages of English translation for each school submitting content in the Welsh language. With such schools effectively seeing their allocation being reduced from twenty pages to ten, some Welsh schools were apparently boycotting the project in protest at this apparent discrimination. Other concerns from Welsh schools were raised in relation to featured amenities to be surveyed by each school, these being less commonplace in rural areas, suggesting a bias towards urban areas in the design of the survey criteria.<ref name="acornuser198509" />

Although as many as 13,000 schools showed an interest in collecting and submitting data, these schools mainly covered urban areas, leaving "large gaps of knowledge" in rural areas, and leading the Domesday Project team to reach out to the [[Women's Institutes|Women's Institute]], [[The Scout Association|Scout Association]], [[The Guide Association|Guide Association]] and to farmers.<ref name="acornuser198506">{{ cite news | url=https://archive.org/details/AcornUser035-Jun85/page/n18/mode/1up | title=Camera prizes for Domesday photos | work=Acorn User | date=June 1985 | access-date=1 December 2020 | pages=17 }}</ref>