Hi Gh-Wikipedians
Asaf, a WMF staff published statistics about the number of active *editors*
(not edits) of a given language Wikipedia *per country*. Although its just a
snapshot (1 month) and can’t tell much, some here might find it interesting
too. It is at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Asaf_(WMF)/Geowiki>
Cursorily looking at the data on West Africa only, below is what I observed:
On “Active”editors (5+ edits per month)
The English Wikipedia happens to be the most edited in West Africa and is
edited in all 18 countries with Nigeria and Ghana having [30-40] and [110-120]
"active contributors”respectively, every other country has [0-10] number of
Engligh language countributors. For other languages besides English, there are
[0-10] number of contributors if they exist at all in any of the 18 West
African countries. Interestingly, Senegalese contributors edit 10 different
Wikipedia's; this is followed by Mali and Benin contributing to 9 Wikipedias
and Cote D'Ivoire 8. All four countries are francophone. See image at
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0jCIl911eXaWGQ4X211cVh0Vkk/view?usp=sharing>
On “Very Active” editors (100+ edits per month)
There aren't more than [0-10] very active contributors to any language in any
country in the region. English and French are the most edited languages with
English contributions coming from 7 countries including francophone countries;
Togo, Benin and Cote D'Ivoire, whiles French "very active" contributions come
from 5 countries including Anglophone countries; Nigeria and Ghana. See image
at
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0jCIl911eXaQzFKTnFxcC1jWWc/view?usp=sharing>
Benin, Nigeria, Cote D'Ivoire and Togo register very active editor
contributions on 4 different Wikipedia's. In Ghana, very active contributors
are found on English, French and Japanese Wikipedias.
My take on the data
The three officially recognized User groups in the region appear to be doing
relatively better than the rest. Another country that is doing well but not yet
a user group (and should be looked out for), is Benin. Considering their small
population, they have an equal number of “active” editors as Ghana and on top
of that they surpass us in number of “very active” contributors. Also, I’m
personally surprise to see contributors to languages other than English,
French, and Arabic in the region. Languages such as Esperanto, Hebrew, Far
Eastern, and Turkish made it into the list, some of them “very active” editors.
I'm curious to learn more about who these editors are. In all, no single
country seem to have stood out in any big way, maybe we may need to investigate
more data from the past or even looking forward into the future to see how
these numbers would behave.
Best Regards
-Masssly
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