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-labor-and-informational-magnetism-mapping-participation-in-wikipedia/ Pre-publication PDF: http://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=545088089111020079026122120126093120039012007068065003094083109117028096126102116093035043107025020012109114028012117111115000033055024073042105002087010117093091089003009036118085117127004088071087118109029006099084095012119097112088100023103019016094&EXT=pdf -Adam [[mw:User:Adamw]] _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
