Scaling Consensus: Increasing Decentralization in Wikipedia Governance

Forte, Andrea; Bruckman, Amy

doi:10.1109/hicss.2008.383

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“…In addition, they found that the first few votes in an election have a disproportionate effect on the final outcome of the election. Forte and Bruckman (2008) oun h W k pe gove n nce en s o ecen l ze: "As he commun y grows, it has become necessary for governance mechanisms to shift outward into the community. This decentralization was not entirely accidental; self-organization was dependent in part on the design of the technology and embedded in the philosophy of the community's oun e n e ly p c p n s." Fo e e al.…”

Section: Policiesmentioning

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The People’s Encyclopedia Under the Gaze of the Sages: A Systematic Review of Scholarly Research on Wikipedia

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Wikipedia has become one of the ten most visited sites on the Web, and the world's leading source of Web reference information. Its rapid success has inspired hundreds of scholars from various disciplines to study its content, communication and community dynamics from various perspectives. This article presents a systematic review of scholarly research on Wikipedia. We describe our detailed, rigorous methodology for identifying over 450 scholarly studies of Wikipedia. We present the WikiLit website (http://wikilit.referata.com), where most of the papers reviewed here are described in detail. In the major section of this article, we then categorize and summarize the studies. An appendix features an extensive list of resources useful for Wikipedia researchers.

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Section: Policiesmentioning

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The People’s Encyclopedia Under the Gaze of the Sages: A Systematic Review of Scholarly Research on Wikipedia

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“…The input can be merely consultative, as with Facebook's Site Governance initiative for gathering feedback on terms of service changes or U.S. President Obama's use of platforms for gathering ideas about implementing open governance. Or they can run deep in the DNA of the organization, such as in Wikipedia where contributors struggle to conduct distributed self-governance [6,14,21]. As we move outside hierarchical organizations, we believe we should expand our guiding theory to incorporate insights from political communication in order to more effectively design for these wider, more casual engagement efforts.…”

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Proceedings of the ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

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We present a novel platform for supporting public deliberation on difficult decisions. ConsiderIt guides people to reflect on tradeoffs and the perspectives of others by framing interactions around pro/con points that participants create, adopt, and share. ConsiderIt surfaces the most salient pros and cons overall, while also enabling users to drill down into the key points for different groups. We deployed ConsiderIt in a contentious U.S. state election, inviting residents to deliberate on nine ballot measures. We discuss ConsiderIt's affordances and limitations, enriched with empirical data from this deployment. We show that users often engaged in normatively desirable activities, such as crafting positions that recognize both pros and cons, as well as points written by people who do not agree with them.

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“…Wikipedia makes sure the agents are adaptive via a series of incentive and control mechanisms which are the foundation stones for the community order. The incentive mechanism stimulates users to join in the discussion of community rules [17] while the control mechanism asks for rather cautious edits on policy pages. Some policy pages are of rigid priority, which do not encourage much revision [18].…”

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The Mechanism of Spontaneous Order in Online Knowledge Sharing Community: Taking Wikipedia as an Example

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2013

Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Computer, Communication, Control and Automation

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Abstract-In the background of information explosion and big data problem, online knowledge sharing communities confront new challenge of the mechanism of knowledge organization and sharing. Several of these communities, especially Wikipedia, base the knowledge sharing mechanism on spontaneous order by community users. By analyzing the network structure and evolution process of the community policy environment in Wikipedia, this paper finds out that the set of community policies and user guidelines has its rank of priority -some of which are of fundamental place and function. Different policy functions tend to converge in the evolving process, which proves the increasing stabilization of spontaneous order. By illustrating the mechanism of spontaneous order from the angles of user collaboration and CAS theory, this paper points out that the active user participation, the smooth information flow and the prudent control are key points for the Wikipedia knowledge sharing, which is also enlightening for understanding and constructing knowledge sharing mechanism in similar online communities.

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Scaling Consensus: Increasing Decentralization in Wikipedia Governance

Abstract: How does "self-governance" happen in Wikipedia? Through in-depth

Cited by 112 publications

References 11 publications

The People’s Encyclopedia Under the Gaze of the Sages: A Systematic Review of Scholarly Research on Wikipedia

The People’s Encyclopedia Under the Gaze of the Sages: A Systematic Review of Scholarly Research on Wikipedia

Supporting reflective public thought with considerit

The Mechanism of Spontaneous Order in Online Knowledge Sharing Community: Taking Wikipedia as an Example

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