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Pakistan
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Pakistan has two official languages, Urdu (also the national language) and English. Although only about 8% of Pakistanis speak Urdu as their first language, it is spoken as a second and often third language by nearly all Pakistanis. The percentage of internet penetration in Pakistan is 16.78% or about 30,943,124 people having internet access in 2010.[[1]]
- Wikipedia
According to Alexa, Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites in Pakistan, ranking 8th in December 2011. The Urdu language Wikipedia is ranked 89 out of 280 Wikipedias in the world, with 14 active contributors.[2][3] December 2011, there were 5,240 women of all ages from Pakistan who were interested in Wikipedia on Facebook.[4] In December 2011, according to Alexa, Wikipedia was ranked the 8th most popular site in the country.[5] Netball is one of the most popular women's participation sports in former and current Commonwealth countries. There are 37 articles about models from this country on English Wikipedia. On English Wikipedia's Women's History Wikiproject, the most popular November 2011 article about a Pakistani woman was Benazir Bhutto, ranked 130th overall with 67995 views during the month. In December 2011, elections were held for English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee.
- Volunteer projects, popularity, readership, and contribution
In December 2011, according to Alexa, Wikinews was ranked the 23,063th most popular site in the country.[6] A December 2011 search on English Wikinews for Pakistan Women found 53 articles that mentioned both words.[7] A December 2011 search on Spanish Wikinews for Pakistán mujeres found 16 articles that mentioned both words.[8] 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, according to Alexa, Wikibooks was ranked the 4,298th most popular site in the country.[9]
In December 2011, Wikiversity was ranked the 42,148th most popular site in the country.[10] 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 no bureaucrats, male or female, from this country on MediaWiki.Org.[11] There is one woman active on the language incubator who uses Khowar language, which is spoken in Pakistan, China and Afghanistan. She has made 21 edits.
- Pakistanis women perspective to free knowledge
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- Women in Pakistan
In 19th century, feminist-sympathetic movements within the South Asian Muslim community tried to fight the forcibly isolation of women from social contact, particularly with men. Some Muslim reformers began limit polygamy and empower women through education. After the independence of Pakistan, women's group and feminist organizations started to eliminate socio-economic injustices against women in the country. Pakistanis women's access to fight property, educati, employment, etc, remains considerably lower compared to men's. People in Pakistan society still embrace patriarchal in social and cultural life.
When compared with most Muslim and Middle Eastern women, the Pakistani women of today enjoy a better status due to lots of awareness among people to increased educational opportunities for Pakistani women. In the political context, Pakistani women granted the suffrage in 1947 and got the women reserved seats in the Parliament. This country was led by two-times Prime Minister Mohtarma Benazir Bhuto, the first women elected in Muslim state.
- The Foundation
During the December 2011 fundraising appeal, no Pakistanis, men or women, were featured are 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.