Digital divide and Wikipedia

Whilst crowdsourcing works wonders in places where there are plenty of educated earners,it falls down in places that underperform.

One such area is Africa,as Marginal Revolution notes

Almost the entire continent of Africa is geographically poorly represented in Wikipedia. Remarkably, there are more Wikipedia articles written about Antarctica than all but one of the 53 countries in Africa (or perhaps more amazingly, there are more Wikipedia articles written about the fictional places of Middle Earth and Discworld than about many countries in Africa, Asia, and the Americas).

via the Guardian