image: Motivation. On November 2nd 2020, two terrorist attacks occurred: One in Vienna, Austria and one in Kabul, Afghanistan (top). Although both events gained many page views and edits on the English Wikipedia (bottom left), the attack in Austria received much more attention than the one in Afghanistan, including coverage in more Wikipedia language editions (bottom right). Maps retrieved from Wikimedia Commons (top left) and OpenStreetMap (top right).
Credit: Ruprechter et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Attention to Wikipedia articles covering events is skewed towards those in high-income countries, with political events and disasters receiving particular focus over cultural and sports events, per analysis of 17,490 articles
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0289325
Article Title: Poor attention: The wealth and regional gaps in event attention and coverage on Wikipedia
Author Countries: Austria, USA
Funding: This work was funded in part by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Army Research Office (ARO) under Contract No. W911NF-21-C-0002 awarded to KB.
Journal
PLOS One
Article Title
Poor attention: The wealth and regional gaps in event attention and coverage on Wikipedia
Article Publication Date
8-Nov-2023
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.