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===Fri Feb 3 2017===

According to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausa_language Hausa] [https://ha.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] ranks '''#230 out of a total of 295 wikipedias!''' Hausa, the language with a conservative estimate of more than 50 million speakers. The same story follows with other Wikimedia projects such as the Hausa wiktionary. I as a bilingual Hausa English speaking wikipedian gain a lot of benefit from Wikipedia and would love to give back but just can't afford to simply volunteer the amount of time and effort necessary. Thus spawns my own wiki-centric web projects such as HausaDictionary.com (ha.wiktionary.org) and HausaFilms.TV (think IMDb+Wikipedia for the Hausa movie industry). I understand that this defeats the crowd-sourced open nature of Wikis but I just don't see the Hausa projects expanding without any incentives. Would look into proposing a campaign idea via [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/FAQ Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire] or https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Grants