[Gendergap] Perspectives on women in the Wikimedia movement: Algeria

[Laura Hale]

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_countrycould
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
chapter<http://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
teams<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Category:Women%27s_basketball_teams>
in
this country on English Wikipedia. There are 0 articles about women's
basketball teams<http://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
נשים<http://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
models<http://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
category<http://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
team<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria_women%27s_national_basketball_team>
 and Algeria women's national handball
team<http://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
Committee<http://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 Wikinews<http://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
incubator<http://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
English<http://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 featured<http://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
Research<http://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.

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