Continuing in the theme of documenting and highlighting the involvement of women around the world, their coverage and participation on Wikimedia projects… today I'm posting about Algeria. If you speak Arabic, help improving this would be much appreciated. Other countries in http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiWomenCamp_-_women_perspective_by... also use some assistance in beginning to organise raw data, adding additional raw information, adding pictures of women at meetups and conferences, etc. Thank you to the people who have helped improve these perspective articles. :) Whether it is one article or ten, the assistance is appreciated. :)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp/FAQ/Perspectives/Algeria
[image: Flag of Algeria.svg] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria 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]http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/rank.php [2] http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_users_by_country Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites in the country, ranking 11th in December 2011.[4] http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/DZ 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] https://www.facebook.com/ads/create/ This interest is higher than the 9% female contributor population. The country does not have a Wikimedia chapterhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters 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]http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerLanguageBreakdown.htm Content about Algerian women's sport is limited on several different language Wikipedia. There are 0 articles about women's basketball teamshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Category:Women%27s_basketball_teams in this country on English Wikipedia. There are 0 articles about women's basketball teamshttp://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%C3%A9gorie:Club_de_basket-ball_f%C3%A9minin in this country on French Wikipedia. There are 0 articles about women's basketball teams in this country (he:קטגוריה:קבוצות כדורסל נשיםhttp://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%A7%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A6%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%9B%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%9C_%D7%A0%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9D) on Hebrew Wikipedia. There are 0 articles about Algerian modelshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Female_models on English Wikipedia. While there are many articles about men's sport in Algeria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sport_in_Algeria on English Wikipedia, there is not a single category about Algerian women's sport. In the national sport team categoryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:National_sports_teams_of_Algeria, there are thirteen articles about men's teams and only two articles about national women's teams: Algeria women's national basketball teamhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria_women%27s_national_basketball_team and Algeria women's national handball teamhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria_women%27s_national_handball_team. There are no Algerians, male or female, who have been on English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committeehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2011. 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 http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Administrators, nor are there any women from this country who are English wikinews accredited reporters http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Credential_verification. On Portuguese Wikinewshttp://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:P%C3%A1gina_principal, 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]http://ar.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B5%3A%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%AB&search=%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A3%D8%A9+%D9%81%D9%8A+%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1 A search for الجزائر, Arabic for Algeria, had between 40 and 50 results.[8]http://ar.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B5:%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%AB&redirs=1&profile=default&search=%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1&limit=50&offset=0 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] http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikibooks.org There are no women who are administrators on incubatorhttp://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and no active women editors from this country. There are no bureaucrats, male or female, from Algeria on MediaWiki.Org.[10]http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat There are no women from this country involved in leadership roles on Englishhttp://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Main_Page or German Wikiversity http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/v:_Hauptseite. 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 featuredhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011#A_Parade_of_Appeals.21_December_22.2C_2011 as part of the appeal. During the 2011 Summer of Researchhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Summer_of_Research_2011, 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.