Moroccan Darija in Online Creation Communities: Example of Wikipedia
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- Anass SEDRATI (MA) Wikimedia Morocco User Group
- Abderrahman AIT ALI (MA) Wikimedia Morocco User Group
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Online creation communities - OCCs, are networks of individuals who collaborate via internet platforms in order to share and spread knowledge and content on various topics. Among the largely used OCCs in the internet, we find Wikipedia which has a mission to spread the sum of human knowledge to all people in the world. One of the pillars of Wikipedia is that all humans should be able to access information in their own languages. A particularity of this system is its decentralization and independence from any state or authority, allowing any user to be part of the community and participate directly to enrich the projects of their choice. In this context, this paper presents the existing projects aiming to provide an encyclopedic content in Moroccan Darija such as Wikipedia in Darija project. We discuss their status as well as the different challenges facing them. We conclude this paper by analyzing the future prospects of these projects and by suggesting a number of improvements and developments to follow.
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