Wikipedia's view of the world is written by the west

Research by Oxford University shows five rich countries edit most articles about places - and when others do contribute, they write about the west

Nearly half of all edits to articles about places on Wikipedia were made from just five countries, researchers at the University of Oxford have found.

The UK, US, France, Germany and Italy are the source of 45% of the edits on "geocoded" Wikipedia articles, which have a longitude and latitude associated with them to link them to a specific place in the world.