OII | 2.5% of the world is responsible for more than 50% of Wikipedia articles

Published on
11 Nov 2014

The information geographies project shows the majority of Wikipedia content is about 2.5% of the world's land area whilst the whole continent of Africa only has around 2.6% geotagged articles.

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