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A few months ago I wrote an article which summarises my history on the Malagasy Wiktionary, and more generally my history on Malagasy language Wikimedia projects.
\nI am back here to write a short summary recapitulating the current progression of African language WMF projects. In this article you\u2019ll learn about the current stage of African language projects and their trend.
\nIn terms of community size, the biggest African-language community is the Afrikaans language Wikipedia community; followed by Egyptian Arabic speaking community and Swahili speaking community.
\nIf we look closer to the\u00a0statistics<\/a>. The award goes to the\u00a0Afrikaans<\/a>\u00a0language Wikipedia community which has 7 to 8 very active contributors (performing more than 100 edits per month).
\nThe\u00a0Egyptian Arabic<\/a>\u00a0Wikipedia community counts 2-3 very active contributors, which is big for an African language but very small comparing to\u00a0Standard Arabic<\/a>\u00a0community counting more than twenty times more active users (83 very active users in June 2013), most of them being Egyptian contributors.
\nAbout\u00a0Swahili<\/a>, the number of very active users is one to two. On a 2-year term, this number can be averaged to 1. But the number of active users (i.e. making more than 5 edits per month) is 9 in average, which is a fine thing for a language that is spoken in countries where internet access is quite hard.
\nThese numbers were obviously averaged from July 2011 to June 2013, so it smoothes short-term variations.
\nIn terms of raw article size, the biggest African language Wikimedia project is the\u00a0Malagasy Wiktionary<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 which currently counts 2.5 million articles, only smaller than English and bigger than French! \u2013 , the Malagasy Wikipedia (40,000+ articles) and the Yoruba Wikipedia (30,000+ articles), followed by the Afrikaans and the Swahili language Wikipedias (respectively 27,000+ and 25,000+ articles).
\nThe Malagasy Wiktionary balecame very big for reasons you can\u00a0read here<\/a>, the Malagasy Wikipedia is big thanks to geography articles (~20,000 articles) and celestial objects (~8,000 articles); the Yoruba Wikipedia is made big by articles about people and also celestial objects (~15,000 objects).
\nMany Wikimedians who consult the statistics should know that the number of content pages does not determine the quality or the comprehensiveness of an encyclopedia. Judging wikis by article count is like judging a book by the appearance of its cover. And many book readers and critics know that looking at the cover is not enough to judge a novel. Here, by its raw size, the Malagasy language dominate in the two biggest projects (Wikipedia and Wiktionary) but that doesn\u2019t mean it has a very active community.
\nTo judge about the quality, comprehensiveness and completeness of the articles of such wikis, it is better to dive into\u00a0this kind of statistics<\/a>\u00a0where scores are given by the absence\/presence of vital articles and the size (number of characters) of such articles (if they exist). That kind of statistics are better than article count and page depth which can be inflated by the use of bot and the generation of tons of non-article pages (talk pages, subpages, redirects…).
\nAccording to the Order Tramadol Online \u00a0List of Wikipedias by sample of articles<\/a><\/i>, the best scored African language Wikipedia is the Afrikaans Wikipedia, which ranks 58th\u00a0and the Swahili Wikipedia (79th) followed by Egyptian Arabic, Yoruba and Somali Wikipedias. Malagasy Wikipedia is quite far behind and ranks 155th\u00a0which is only higher than Lingala (161st), Wolof (175th) and Shona (187th) Wikipedias having less than 5,000 articles. Which means article count is only the cover of the book and thus some efforts have to be done there to make Malagasy Wikipedia more comprehensive.
\n https://www.campingatlantide.com/evenements-speciaux/ What about the trend?<\/strong>
\nLess than a year ago, some Wikipedias found a way to grow in number of article thanks to species databases. The first ones I saw to grow this way are\u00a0Winaray<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Cebuano<\/a>\u00a0Wikipedias. Winaray Wikipedia gained 100,000 articles primarily thanks to low quality geography stubs (consisting in one or two sentences), and secondarily thanks to articles about species, animal and vegetal ones, making it to have 510,000 articles. Cebuano has more than decupled in article count within the last 50 weeks, from 40,000 to more than 500,000 articles. This mania of creating article about species has propagated to Swedish and Dutch Wikipedia which has recently surpassed the German Wikipedia, and in response to that, the latter Wikipedia seemed to have boycotted the Dutch Wikipedia, by deleting the link to the Dutch Wikipedia in the German language Wikipedia main page.
\nNow let\u2019s write about the growth trend of African language Wikimedia projects. First off, let\u2019s talk about Wikipedias, then Wiktionaries and finally other \u00abminor\u00bb Wikimedia projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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https://grenzzonederm.com/covid-19-resources/ Wikipedia language edition<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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https://blackbullextremehoney.com/the-honey-that-fuels-champions-black-bull-extreme-honey/ Current article count<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Buy Tramadol Without Prescription Growth (in 300 days) (1)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Xanax Buy Without Prescription Malagasy<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Buy Ativan Online Without Prescription 40,619<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Buy Tramadol Without Prescription +2,415<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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https://nswellness.ca/maryam-barzanouni-kinesiologist/ Yoruba<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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30,624<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Buy Valium Online Without Prescription +582<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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https://www.indicold.com/indicold_detroj/ Afrikaans<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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27,801<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Zolpidem 5mg Order Online +3,928<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Ambien Online Ordering Swahili<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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25,368<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Buy Clonazepam Online Overnight +1,232<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Amharic<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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12,722<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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https://www.campingatlantide.com/lynos/ +1,015<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Egyptian Arabic<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Buy Ativan Online Without Prescription 10,764<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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+1,939<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Somali<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2,830<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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+383<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Lingala<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2,035<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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+118<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Kinyarwanda<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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1,816<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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+7<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Kabyle<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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1,517<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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+778<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Wolof<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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1,172<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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+49<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Kongo<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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826<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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+135<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Northern Sotho<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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688<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Igbo<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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739<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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+44<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Zulu<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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586<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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+22<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Setswana<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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496<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\u20131<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Bambara<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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392<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

+6<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Siswati<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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368<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

+6<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Ewe<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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302<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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+12<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Hausa<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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291<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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+17<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Oromo<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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276<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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+36<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Tigrinya<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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259<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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+2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Tsonga<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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250<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

+7<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Sango<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

204<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

+17<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Kirundi<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

192<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

+8<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Sesotho<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

189<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

+44<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Akan<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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179<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

+17<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Fulfude<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

166<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

+12<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Luganda<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

166<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\u20132<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Twi<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

157<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

+12<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Chamorro<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

157<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

+6<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Xhosa<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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151<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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+10<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

(1) Calculated following\u00a0this s<\/a>ite<\/a>, data retrieved in July 26th\u00a02013.
\nOn Wikipedia, the growth is slow comparing to other languages spoken in developped countries, where Internet access is easy and unexpensive to the normal citizen. The African language with the biggest community grows at approximately 5,000 articles per year, which is fairly high comparing to Swahili which growth is almost twice lower. If the current trend continues, the Afrikaans Wikipedia will surpass the Yoruba language Wikipedia next year, and the Malagasy Wikipedia in the next 2 years, as the two current biggest Wikipedias are stagnating in article growth.
\nOn smaller Wikipedias, the trend is positive, though slow. All open Wikipedias have more than 100 articles.
\nThe biggest of them is the Malagasy Wiktionary which has its growth kept by the use of Bot-Jagwar. Owned by myself, Bot-Jagwar runs from the Cloud, so it works regardless my computer and my internet connection\u2019s healths. Thanks to it, the Malagasy Wiktionary gains 300 to 500 content pages daily. Automations eases many things in many ways, but automated processes can fail. So I have to keep an eye not only on the source code but also to entries generated thanks to that source code.
\nAfrican language Wikipedias are slowly but surely gaining articles as time passes. There seems to be a moratorium in closing African language Wikipedias, and this is fine because languages mainly spoken in developping countries need time to develop a community. Furthermore, the official language in these countries, especially African ones, are very often not the local language.
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\"Kurzweil
Kurzweil Curve showing growth of computing power. It shows that all human brains can be simulated by 2050. What about having billions of “virtual” contributors on Wikipedia in 2050? Source (kraxinglogic.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nAn increase of bot-made articles (which constitute nowadays 20% of articles created in Wikipedia) can indicate that in a near future, perhaps in 25 or 30 years, a bot will be able to write article like humans do. This is because Ray Kurzweil predicts the ability to simulate the human brain to be possible in twelve years and that current computers\u2019 calculation power were supercomputers\u2019 in the 1990s.
\nWhat about me? Well, it\u2019s been a while since my last big article on the Malagasy Wikipedia. And according to the list of Wikipedias by sample of article, several hundreds of article needed in all Wikipedias are missing, so my first goal for Wikipedia is to fill these gaps, slowly but yet surely. I prefer contributing about geography, but as I am the only contributor of the Wiki, I have to fill gaps a bit everywhere : Biography, Chemistry, Sports, etc. At that pace, I can barely create three or four articles per day. At that pace, I can fill the\u00a0 1,000 articles that every Wikipedia should have<\/i><\/a>\u00a0list whithin the year.
\nIt\u2019s been a while since the last time I blogged in Malagasy, So this article will be followed by a Malagasy language article. Perhaps a translation of this one, perhaps a new one.
\nUseful resources
\nTo read further about what’s mentioned here.<\/p>\n
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  1. The law of Accelerating Returns<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Kurzweil<\/li>\n
  2. http:\/\/www.wikistatistics.net<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>for all statistics about Wikimedia projects<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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