Country | Number of Francophones | Number of Articles in Portal | Percentage out of 2,259,644 Articles (%) |
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France | 66,060,000 | 383,510 | 16.97 |
Congo-Kinshasa | 42,533,000 | 4,382 | 0.19 |
Algeria | 13,804,000 | 11,360 | 0.05 |
Morocco | 12,729,000 | 7,825 | 0.35 |
Cameroun | 10,006,000 | 10,808 | 0.48 |
Belgium | 8,678,000 | 42,181 | 1.87 |
Côte d’Ivoire | 8,259,000 | 3,897 | 0.17 |
Québec | 7,833,000 | 30,195 | 1.34 |
Tunisia | 6,081,000 | 7,721 | 0.34 |
Switzerland | 5,734,000 | 26,767 | 1.18 |
Canada (excluding Québec) | 3,149,000 | 36,217 | 1.60 |
United States | 2,127,000 | 204,745 | 9.06 |
Québécois that contribute to WikipédiaFR, the better Québec’s coverage will be. This also applies to LGBTQ+ content. With more LGBTQ+ Québécois contributing to WikipédiaFR the better this local culture will be represented. Table 1 shows the top ten countries with Francophone populations, the total Francophone population, and the specific articles in their associated country profiles in comparison to the overall number of articles in WikipediaFR. In this table, the United States was added for comparison purposes and Québec was removed from the Canadian numbers, as this chapter’s focus is on this Canadian province. In addition to what appears to be a small number of articles for Québec, an argument can be made that most Francophone countries have local cultural content gaps. WikipédiaFR notability policies are not favorable to local cultures and histories and tend to favor their national counterparts, due primarily to the criteria on a credible