WikiWomenCamp/FAQ/Perspectives/Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The official language of Czechs is Czech language with three different dialects. The internet penetration in Czech is 68.82% or 7,020,815 people having internet connection in 2010.[1]

The Chapter

Wikimedia Česká republika is the country's national chapter.[2]

Wikipedia

In December 2011, the Czech language Wikipedia ranked 18th out of 280 languages in the world, with 96 very active Wikipedians and 659 active contributors.[3][4] In December 2011, there were 12,400 people and 5,800 women of all ages from the Czech Republic who were interested in Wikipedia on Facebook.[5] There are 1 category and 7 articles about women's basketball teams in this country on French Wikipedia. There are 0 articles about women's basketball teams in this country on English Wikipedia. There are 2 articles about women's association football clubs in this country on English Wikipedia. There are 16 articles about models from this country on English Wikipedia. In December 2011, elections were held for English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee. No women from this country ran for Arbitration Committee and there are currently no women from this country on the Arbitration Committee. On Slovak Wikipedia, there are 38 articles about female actors from this country.[6] 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.

Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikisource, Commons, and Other projects

In December 2011, according to Alexa, Wikibooks was ranked the 2,139th most popular site in the 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. On Portuguese Wikinews, there are no women active from this country. This may be a result of several factors, including the language and because Portuguese Wikinews only has an active editing community of five people, one of whom is a woman.

In December 2011, Wikiversity was ranked the 10,901th most popular site in the country.[8] There are no women from this country involved in leadership roles on English or German Wikiversity. Their participation is minimal to non-existent.

There are 1 categories and 0 pictures of women's association football and 0 pictures of the women's national cricket team.

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.

Czech women perspective to free knowledge

Women in Czech

The Foundation

During the December 2011 fundraising appeal, no Czechs, men or women, were 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.