As a quick follow-up to one of my previous posts showing the geography of edits to Wikipedia, I wanted to share another map depicting the huge inequalities in where contributions to the encyclopedia in the MENA region come from.
In particular, this map allows us to get a sense of how many edits (to any Wikipedia language version) come from Israel compared to other countries in the region. In other words, Israelis are far more active in creating/reproducing knowledge in one of the world's most used websites than their counterparts in the rest of the Middle East and North Africa.
I'll post some versions on these maps normalised by population/Internet population soon-ish.
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You are referring to edits in Hebrew for Israelis or in all languages? If so, do you have data on how many edits Israelis do in other languages and how many edits in languages that isn't Arabic come from the other countries of the region?
This map shows edits to all language versions of Wikipedia. We're currently working on mapping where edits to specific language versions (and even clusters of articles) come from - but this is a much more involved task.
because there isn't a question that the Hebrew wiki is probably "healthier" (long articels with several editors), but i was wondering about the affect of people from the middle east on the subjectivity of articles in other languages (mostly articles regarding the middle east)
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