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I think the western male tech-centric demographic partly boils down to the fact that you just need to spend much time at the computer, spend much energy for wri

I think the western male tech-centric demographic partly boils down to the fact that you just need to spend much time at the computer, spend much energy for writing and editing and have to be passionate about it and the topic you write about has to be provable/widely accepted (no personal stories, opinions, etc.). The combination of these things is exactly as it is, maybe except for the western part. I don't understand why easterners aren't participating more actively.

mjn 13y ago
> I don't understand why easterners aren't participating more actively. Quite a few are, though it's highly variable between countries, and many contribute in languages other than English. The Japanese-language Wikipedia has about 4000 active editors in a typical month [1], and I believe the vast majority of them are Japanese, though I'm having trouble finding solid stats on that (if any exist). [1] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryJA.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryJA.htm