Poor attention: The wealth and regional gaps in event attention and coverage on Wikipedia (IMAGE)

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Poor attention: The wealth and regional gaps in event attention and coverage on Wikipedia

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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).

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Ruprechter et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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