Uneven Openness: Barriers to MENA Representation on Wikipedia
Link[PLACEHOLDER: Technical report on barriers to Middle East and North Africa representation on Wikipedia.]
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Maps persistent information asymmetries between the MENA region and the developed world on Wikipedia, finding that "openness" of a platform does not guarantee equitable participation. Structural barriers, whether linguistic, political, or infrastructural, mean that nominally open platforms reproduce existing geopolitical hierarchies of knowledge production.