More African Wikipedia Contributors to 'Decolonize the Internet'?

"Only about 20% of Wikipedia's knowledge is produced by folks from the global south ... We essentially want to make the internet look much more like the real world. The complexities, the multitudes, the richness of all of our histories and knowledges," Anasuya Sengupta has said ahead of the Wikimedia Foundation's annual Wikimania conference.

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