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Diaspora academics · found
Wiki AfroDemics Project
African academics and scientists don't stop being part of the record when they move. This tracker follows African-born researchers, academics, and scientists who are now based in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Germany, or France — through their residence, workplace, or employer, wherever Wikidata records it — and checks whether their Wikipedia coverage keeps up with where they actually are.
Same mission as the Content & Gender Gap Tracker, aimed at a different gap: the story of African expertise doesn't stop at the border, and neither should the record of it.
P27) must be one of the 54 African countries — no
further nationality narrowing; every receiving country checks all 54. Their occupation must also match
scientist / researcher / academic / university teacher or a subclass of one, and Wikidata must
record a tie to the receiving country — residence (P551), work location (P937),
or an employer (P108) based there. Someone with none of those three signals recorded won't
show up here even if they are, in fact, living abroad — this reflects Wikidata's coverage, not the full
reality.
diaspora-data.json instead of
querying Wikidata live in your browser — the heavy queries used to time out constantly against the shared
public endpoint, so they now run offline on a schedule instead. See the timestamp above for how current the
numbers are.