Universal Code of Conduct/Initial 2020 Consultations/Twi Community

Twi is a dialect of the Akan language spoken in southern and central Ghana by several million people. Although lots of people speak the Twi language not many like to write in it. Unless a project is being run which focuses on the Twi Wikipedia, many Ghanaian editors would rather prefer to edit the English Wikimedia more than indigenous language Wikipedia like the Twi Wikipedia.

The initiation of the Twi Wikipedia Translatathon, sparks some interest, encouraged and sought to recruit more editors of the Twi Wikipedia. Efforts are still being continued to be made to recruit more people especially lecturers and students of the Twi language to create a community of editors for Twi Wikipedia. Currently, there are about 709 articles on Twi Wikipedia. The wiki has 9690 registered users, 1 admin and 11 active users.

On 15th August 2020, As part of the Global Open Initiative community's bi weekly meeting, a discussion was raised concerning the Universal Code of Conduct with focus on the Twi Wikipedia. The few people who participated in the Twi Wikipedia Translat-athon project shared their experiences. And most of them talked about how difficult it was to get references for Twi articles. Some complained about how the platform is more technical than English platform with the absence of the visual editor. Not many people raised any concerns about feeling harassed or being made to feel uncomfortable editing on the Twi Wikipedia. The few people who did were mainly newbies, who felt, their work was constantly being deleted on English Wikipedia and that discourages them a lot from editing. Some community members suggested that admins should rather try to correct the work of newbies instead of merely and immediately tagging them for deletion.