Adoption of Wikipedia assignments shows a global digital divide, concentrated in English-speaking countries¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Over 75% of survey responses came from the United States and 5% from Canada, skewing the sample toward North America. → Shani Evenstein Sigalov 2025

Evidence¶

Shani Evenstein Sigalov 2025¶

Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Piotr Konieczny. (2025). Writing for the greater good: what do educators think about using Wikipedia as a teaching tool? Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-025-10505-x

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Background/experience section of the survey of 222 educators. The authors report the geographic skew and attribute it to North America hosting "the largest and best-resourced" Wikipedia higher education program; other countries each contributed small shares.

"Geographically, our results are skewed toward North America, with over 75% of responses coming from the United States and 5% from Canada."

Discussion¶

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