What strategies and tactics are successful in increasing awareness of Wikipedia projects in a specific geographic region and how can Wikimedia empower people to implement these strategies and tactics?

When we write what people want to read, certainly when we write well, Google and other search engines will do a good job for us. What we can do is find out what the articles are that people want to read. We can learn this from our traffic log and, we can ask google (and others) what people in a country want to read and what we do not have an article on.

Only when there is a sufficiently big community of contributors is it feasible to have chapters in countries..