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Formalization and community investment in wikipedia's regulating texts: the role of essays

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SIGDOC '09: Proceedings of the 27th ACM international conference on Design of communication

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1621995.1622063

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This poster presents ongoing research on how discursive and editing behaviors are regulated on Wikipedia by means of documented rules and practices. Our analysis focuses on three types of collaboratively-created policy document (policies, guidelines and essays), that have been formalized to different degrees and represent different degrees of community investment. We employ a content analysis methodology to explore how these regulating texts differ according to a) the aspects of editor behavior, content standards and community principles that they address, and b) how they are used by Wikipedians engaged in 'talk' page discussions to inform, persuade and coordinate with one another.

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Beschastnikh, I., Kriplean, T., and McDonald, D. W. 2008. Wikipedian Self-Governance in Action: Motivating the Policy Lens, In Proceedings of the 2008 AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2008.

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Kriplean, T., Beschastnikh, I., McDonald, D. W. and Golder, S. A. 2007. Community, consensus, coercion, control: cs*w or how policy mediates mass participation, In Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work, GROUP 2007.

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Ren YZhang HKraut R(2023)How Did They Build the Free Encyclopedia? A Literature Review of Collaboration and Coordination among Wikipedia EditorsACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/361736931:1(1-48)Online publication date: 29-Nov-2023
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Formalization and community investment in wikipedia's regulating texts: the role of essays
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing design and evaluation methods
    2. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Computer supported cooperative work
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Web-based interaction
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
      1. Computer supported cooperative work

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SIGDOC '09: Proceedings of the 27th ACM international conference on Design of communication

October 2009

328 pages

ISBN:9781605585598

DOI:10.1145/1621995

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North Carolina State University, USA
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Bridgeline Software, USA
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DePaul University, USA

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Ren YZhang HKraut R(2023)How Did They Build the Free Encyclopedia? A Literature Review of Collaboration and Coordination among Wikipedia EditorsACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/361736931:1(1-48)Online publication date: 29-Nov-2023
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