Algeria

Internet penetration in Algeria low with only 4,323,273 people or 12.50% of the population of the population having internet access in 2010.[1][2][3] Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites in the country, ranking 11th in December 2011.[4] People's interest in the site can also be seen on Facebook where 2,400 Algerians, 860 women of whom were women, liked Wikipedia in December 2011. Women made up 35.8% of all Algerians liking Wikipedia.[5] This interest is higher than the 9% female contributor population. The country does not have a Wikimedia chapter and there do not appear to be active efforts to create one.

Wikipedia appears to have a lack of content related to Algerian women and a lack of participation of Algerian women while representing sizable populations in several different Wikipedia communities. Algergians represent sizable parts of the viewing community on several different language Wikipedia, including 8.7% of all Arabic readers, 1.6% French Wikipedia readers, 11.4% Kabyle Wikipedia readers, and 4.9% of all Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia readers.[6] Content about Algerian women's sport is limited on several different language Wikipedia. There are 0 articles about women's basketball teams in this country on English Wikipedia. There are 0 articles about women's basketball teams in this country on French Wikipedia. There are 0 articles about women's basketball teams in this country (he:קטגוריה:קבוצות כדורסל נשים) on Hebrew Wikipedia. There are 0 articles about Algerian models on English Wikipedia. While there are many articles about men's sport in Algeria on English Wikipedia, there is not a single category about Algerian women's sport.‎ In the national sport team category, there are thirteen articles about men's teams and only two articles about national women's teams: Algeria women's national basketball team and Algeria women's national handball team. There are no Algerians, male or female, who have been on English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee. Coverage and participation of Algerian women is limited.

Algerian women do not appear to be engaged with Wikinews in English or Portuguese. There are no female administrators on English wikinews from this country, nor are there any women from this country who are English wikinews accredited reporters. On Portuguese Wikinews, there are no women active from this country. This makes sense as neither language is one of the major ones in Algeria. On Arabic Wikinews, a search for المرأة في الجزائر , Arabic for women in Algeria, found 0 articles that mentioned both words.[7] A search for الجزائر, Arabic for Algeria, had between 40 and 50 results.[8] There appears to be coverage of Algeria on Arabic wikinews, but not of women in the country.

Algerians, and specifically Algerian women, do not appear to be active in leadership roles in several Wikimedia projects despite the relative popularity of some of these projects. Wikibooks ranked 2,134th in the country in December 2011.[9] There are no women who are administrators on incubator and no active women editors from this country. There are no bureaucrats, male or female, from Algeria on MediaWiki.Org.[10] There are no women from this country involved in leadership roles on English or German Wikiversity. Their participation is minimal to non-existent. The presence of Algerian women on other projects is not felt.

The Foundation does not appear to have made prioritising Algeria as important. During the December 2011 fundraising appeal, no Algerians, men or women, were featured as part of the appeal. During the 2011 Summer of Research, the WMF hired eight research fellows, none of whom were from Algeria. The country was not visited as part of the WMF educational tour of the middle east.