People concerned with the lack of content in Indic languages might enjoy,
"Digital Divisions of Labor and Informational Magnetism: Mapping
Participation in Wikipedia", recent research co-authored by Mark Graham of
the Oxford Internet Institute. The problem is not specific to India.
Quoting from the paper's abstract,
Complicating this issue [of imbalanced participation]
is the fact that
participation
from the world's economic peripheries tends to
focus on editing about the
world's
cores rather than their own local regions. These
results ultimately point
to an
informational magnetism that is cast by the
world's economic cores,
virtuous and
vicious cycles that make it difficult to reconfigure
networks and
hierarchies of
knowledge production.
Overview:
http://cii.oii.ox.ac.uk/2015/09/07/new-publication-digital-divisions-of-lab…
Pre-publication PDF:
http://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=54508808911102007902612212012609…
-Adam
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