WikiWomenCamp/FAQ/Perspectives/Egypt

Egypt

Differences in accounts on Arabic wiki projects where users explicitly state their gender.

Differences in accounts on Arabic wiki projects where users explicitly state their gender.

The official language of Egypt is Egyptian Arabic. The internet penetration in Egypt is 26.74% or about 21,518,178 people having internet connection in 2010.[1]

Wikipedia

Egyptian Arabic language Wikipedia ranked 118th out of 280 wikipedias in the world, with [2] 2 very active wikipedians and 16 active contributors.[3] While, Arabic Wikipedia ranked 25th out of 280 with 70 very active contributors and 576 active contributors.[4] Wikipedia is ranked 20th in the most popular site in Egypt.[5] On English Wikipedia, there are zero featured articles, featured lists or good articles about women's sport in this country that are part of the Women's sport Wikiproject or the Women's football taskforce.

Wikiversity, Wikisource, Wikinews, and other projects.

In December 2011, Wikiversity was ranked the 15,363th most popular site in the country.[6]

On English Wikisource, there are no female bureaucrats from this country.[7]

There are no female administrators on English wikinews from this country, nor are there any women from this country who are English wikinews accredited reporters.

There are no women from this country who are administrators on incubator and no active women editors from this country. The project has few participants overall, with only 44 users identified as female and 516 identified as male. There are no bureaucrats, male or female, from this country on MediaWiki.Org.[8]

Egyptian women perspective to free knowledge

Women in Egypt

As part of their tradition, women's contact with men is limited by some practices such as veiling, gender segregation at public places, and withdrawing females as they reached puberty. In 1956, Egyptian women were granted the right to vote and equality of opportunity, forbidding gender-based discrimination. At the same time, the state legally protected women's standing in work force and maternity leave but repressed independent feminist organizations.

The Foundation

During the December 2011 fundraising appeal, there was no one from this country that was featured as part of the appeal. During the 2011 Summer of Research, the WMF hired eight research fellows. Of these, only one was female, and she was from the United States. There were four males from American universities, The other researchers included men from a Japanese university, a Swiss university and a Canadian university. There were no research fellows, male or female, from this country.