By Ian Ramjohn on December 10, 2020
Expanding Wikipedia’s coverage of African topics
By Ian Ramjohn on December 10, 2020
Expanding Wikipedia’s coverage of African topics
Despite being the largest project of its kind in human history with a reach that’s global, Wikipedia’s coverage skews heavily toward articles about the Global North. In much of the rest of the world, coverage can be spotty, and that’s especially true for a topic like politics. This is why a class like Martha Wilfahrt’s African Politics class can have such a big impact.
Until the 1990s, the economy of Equatorial Guinea was dominated by cocoa, coffee, and timber, but the development of oil and gas production has transformed the country into the third largest petroleum producer on the continent. This in turn has led to political, economic, and social transformation of the country. But until a student in this class created the Petroleum industry in Equatorial Guinea article, the topic was only covere