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abbyjean: Map showing the number of geotagged Wikipedia articles by country. It’s a map of the “known unknowns” — areas where there are likely to be many articles still to write. amazingly, there are more Wikipedia articles written about the fictional places of Middle Earth and Discworld than about many countries in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Wikipedia is an important component of the palimpsests of place. In other words, presences and absences play a fundamental role in shaping how we interpret and interact with the world. The fact that the geographies of Wikipedia content are so uneven therefore leads to worrying conclusions. As we increasingly rely on peer produced information, large parts of the world remain ‘terra incognita.’ (0geography via boing)

abbyjean:

Map showing the number of geotagged Wikipedia articles by country. It’s a map of the “known unknowns” — areas where there are likely to be many articles still to write. amazingly, there are more Wikipedia articles written about the fictional places of Middle Earth and Discworld than about many countries in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Wikipedia is an important component of the palimpsests of place. In other words, presences and absences play a fundamental role in shaping how we interpret and interact with the world. The fact that the geographies of Wikipedia content are so uneven therefore leads to worrying conclusions. As we increasingly rely on peer produced information, large parts of the world remain ‘terra incognita.’ (0geography via boing)

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