Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 8, Issue 136 African languages wikipedias

Dear Kipala, Thanks for the clarification. I agree with your analysis and I'm sure it would be helpful in moving forward to achieving our goal of making knowledge available in all languages. Below are the two major problems I have identified with Yoruba Wikipedia: 1. Yoruba Wikipedia is not indexed on Google and possibly on other search engines too. I discovered this sometimes in July and I informally discussed the problem with a Steward on facebook. Unfortunately, he has no idea of how to solve the problem. Yoruba Wikipedia like the English Wikipedia is a digital encyclopedia. There is no way its contents could be read if not indexed on Google or other search engines. I believe once this is resolved, there would be a significant difference. I will discuss the problem with our engineering team at the Foundation this week. 2. Yoruba is a major language in Nigeria but only 1 of 10 people are aware of its existence. I recently launched the "Yoruba Wikipedia" page on facebook to create awareness about it. In fact, I discovered recently that Yoruba language scholars and students are not even aware of anything called "Yoruba Wikipedia". I believe this can be resolved with outreach to Yoruba language department of academic institutions in Nigeria. Furthermore, I would appreciate any advice and recommendation in solving the highlighted problems above. Best, Isaac Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile. -----Original Message----- From: Ingo Koll <ikoll(a)gmx.de> Sender: "African-Wikimedians" <african-wikimedians-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org>Datet;Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 09:41:17 To: <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Reply-To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 8, Issue 136 African languages wikipedias Hi Isaac, looking at the report "page views per country" you get numbers which wikipedia versions were opened per country. https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountry… and you can choose "detailed version" Looking at Nigeria and Madagascar you see for October : (language version - thousand views - percentage of all wikipedia views in the country) ****Nigeria English Wp 32945 97.5% Igbo Wp 386 1.1% Simple English Wp 112 0.3% French Wp 97 0.3% Arabic Wp 62 0.2% German Wp 56 0.2% Russian Wp 35 0.1% Italian Wp 34 0.1% Other 49 0.2% ****Madagascar French Wp 2021 83.5% English Wp 392 16.2% German Wp 5 0.2% Other 1 0.1% So of course SOME people do read Yoruba from Nigeria or Malegache from Madagascar but this share was less than 0,1% and thus is hidden amongst "other". Surprisingly Igbo (a pretty small wikipedia) is visible in Nigeria. Lets see if that repeats. Malagasy was visible in the last report from August, having 3000 calls and 0,01 % in Madagascar. Checking the other way round: language views https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerLanguag… (language version was viewed from which countries) **** Yoruba (yo) (0.002% share of global total) France 44.9% United States 29.8% Germany 18.8% Other 6.5% **** Malagasy (mg) (0.002% share of global total) France 44.9% United States 31.0% Germany 20.0% Other 4.1% Also here the "home country" is hidden amongst "others", i.e. less than 1 percent of views of Yoruba coming from Nigeria (but more than 80% of igbo views! Did they have some PR recently??) Cheers Ingo - Kipala _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians