Writing Ghana into Wikipedia: Felix Nartey – Wikimedia Blog

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Summary:

"Nartey believes that knowledge sharing activities like editing Wikipedia have an effect on people’s lives, but at the present time there are significant content gaps on the site. There are fewer articles about topics on the African continent than there are about Europe or North America, and those that do exist tend to be shorter and less detailed.

Increasing the diversity of contributions on Wikipedia helps achieve higher-quality content and combat systemic bias, and that’s why many people—including Nartey—are trying to figure out the reasons behind these gaps and are putting forth great effort to bridge them."

Link:

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/11/felix-nartey/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.wikipedia oa.ghana oa.video oa.bias oa.africa oa.people oa.south

Date tagged:

08/14/2017, 11:22

Date published:

08/14/2017, 07:22