26 Country Report: Wikipedia
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Cameroon:Wikipedia
The French wikipedia is a small part of the wikimedia ecosystem. French Wikipedia wants to inform the community of the French Wikipedia about what is happening outside of it. In French wikipedia they’ve created a group for Wikipedia users to allow them to build a strong team of developers to contribute to wikimedia related projects. Cameroon has also divided subgroups into multiple categories, most important to least important which all add up to 13,555 (Wikiworkers).
In comparison to English Wikipedia, they include 6,617,229 articles and averages 558 new articles per day. French Wikipedia has 19,464 active contributors out of 4,583,153 registered users. Also the French Wikipedia has news, as well as the main rules and requests that have gradually been put in place to ensure the maintenance of wikipedia and to facilitate communication between particiants. The English Wikipedia has 10,000 editors which is updated daily, and it also shows all the registered editors and not only their edit count but also where they would rank based on their edits.
When comparing the French wikipedia to the English wikipedia for Cameroon, i would say they pretty much have the same information. But i do believe that French wikipedia goes more in depth with their categories, compared to English wikipedia. when looking at the sports category for French wikipedia, you can see that they go in-depth with the people that were famous for those sports ( Samuel Eto’o), growing up I would hear about him as well from my parents; he was one of the best soccer players in Cameroon. But the English Wikipedia doesn’t really highlight him as much as the French one does.
Links:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:RAW/R%C3%A9daction
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Cameroon_User_Group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cameroon
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Accueil_de_la_communaut%C3%A9