7% of African web traffic to Wikipedia contributed by Kenya

Kenyans have contributed 7 percent of total African traffic to the online encyclopaedia – Wikipedia in October 2012.

According to data available from the firm, Kenya had 12.6 million page views to Wikipedia in October. More than 40 percent of the access to the site were from mobile phones.

“This means, on average, Kenya is twice as mobile-centric as the rest of Africa. It also means that Kenya is one of the top five most mobile-centric countries of Wikipedia’s major readership territories,” said Mr Amit Kapoor, Wikipedia’s mobile partnerships representative.

A total of 307 million Wikipedia page views originated from Africa, 16.3 percent of these views were to the mobile site.

Mr Kapoor was speaking during a meeting with Telkom Kenya CEO Mickael Ghossein.

Telkom Kenya has partnered with Wikipedia to provide free access to the encyclopaedia to all data users in the country.

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopaedia with more than 20 million articles in 280 languages. It has nearly half a billion visitors every month.

Some 20,000 of these articles are in East African KiSwahili language.

Source: The Africa Review