Wikidata:Lexicographical data/Focus languages/Form/Hausa

Language: Hausa

Language details

What is the language, language family, usual scripts, where is it spoken, by how many people, and what other languages do speakers (%) of this language usually speak? (Some of this information can be found in the article list of languages by total number of speakers)

Hausa is a Chadic language from the Afro-Asiatic language family, usually written in two major script, latin and arabic. It is spoken widely in West Africa as a first language to over 48 million speakers and 26 million more as a second language, and it is native language to Nigeria and Niger, it also has sizeable number of speakers in Ivory Coast, Benin, Cameroun, Sudan, Central African Republic, The Gambia, Chad and other African countries. See Hausa Language.

Current representation of this language in Wikimedia projects

Is there a Wikipedia or a Wiktionary? Is it a language in Wikidata? If yes, what are the statistics for pages in Wikipedia or Wiktionary, or for Lexemes in Wikidata? (Details are in m:Complete list of Wikimedia projects, and in the local Special:Statistics pages, and in Ordia for Lexemes.

Yes! There exist Wikipedia and Wiktionary in Hausa, it is also a language in Wikidata

• ha:, has 8,000+ articles with about 50+ active contributors
• wikt:ha:, about 311 pages, 5 - 10 active contributors
• Hausa (Q56475)

Current representation of this language in other sources

Is there an open corpus of text for this language? How many books are published in this language? Is this language taught in schools? Is it an official language of a country or region? (Please link to details)

There are many available corpora in Hausa. It is a major language with many written books. It is a national language in two countries and it is used and taught in schools in many states in Nigeria. See Ka'idojin Rubutun Hausa dan Dalibai, Yadda ake rubutu da karatu da Hausa, Study of Hausa Syntax volume I, Leipzig corpora collection Hausa, GlobalPhone Hausa, github Hausa corpus, The first large scale collection of diverse Hausa language.., Towards-the-Development-of-Hausa-Language-Corpus.pdf, hausa-boko-text-corpora. Hausa is the largest spoken language in Africa.

Seed group of participants

Describe a bit about the seed group that wants to coordinate and actively participate. Describe its size, its current activity, why this group will likely still exist in three years time. Does anyone in the group know how to code? How many in the group know English? How many in the group are not living where the language is spoken, or are not native speakers?

There is a community of contributors whose goal primarily focus on promoting Wikimedia projects in Hausa, Most of the members are native of Hausa language and some are second language speakers and speak mostly Arabic. Yes! Those that would like to partake in this project know how to code. They all speak English.

Potential for community growth

Describe the potential for the language community to grow. Is Internet access widely available? Through which kind of devices usually? What is the literacy rate in the language community? Are there universities, vocational schools, or similar institutions, and how large are the student populations?

The community is growing day by day if you consider the increasing number of active contributors to the project now, and daily readers/visitors to the projects are also increasing in recent. The literacy level has been growing among Hausa students where almost all the universities in Nigeria and Niger teach Hausa language as a course (BA Degree) with an annual enrolment of tens of thousands students, also there exist vocational and teachers colleges, and religious schools which they primarily taught in hausa language. Internet access is expanding rapidly whereby internet connection is now becoming easy to access in Nigeria nowadays. The type of devices used are mostly mobiles phones and computers.

Openness of the existing community to innovation

If there is a Wikipedia in that language, how open has it been to Wikidata? To Article Placeholder? To bot editing and usage of modules?

Hausa Wikipedia has used wikidata to generate data from it into its' articles, like the databox template that creates an automatic infobox from the information gotten on wikidata. We also have created some of the most widely used modules and templates and even categories connected from wikidata.