How does "self-governance" happen in Wikipedia? Through in-depth interviews with eleven
individuals who have held a variety of responsibilities in the English Wikipedia, we obtained …

… Scaling consensus: Increasing decentralization in wikipedia governance. In Hawaii
International Conference on System Sciences, page 157, 2008. …

In recent years, a new realm has appeared for the study of political and sociological
phenomena: the Internet. This article will analyze the decision-making processes of one of the …

Virtual teams and other online groups can find it challenging to establish norms that allow
them to effectively balance task and relational aspects of their discussions. Yet, in our reliance …

This paper presents a model of the behavior of candidates for promotion to administrator status
in Wikipedia. It uses a policy capture framework to highlight similarities and differences in …

Prior research on Wikipedia has characterized the growth in content and editors as being
fundamentally exponential in nature, extrapolating current trends into the future. We show that …

As Wikipedia grows, so do the messy byproducts of collaboration. Backlogs of administrative
work are increasing, suggesting the need for more users with privileged admin status. This …

Online production groups have the potential to transform the way that knowledge is produced
and disseminated. One of the most widely used forms of online production is the wiki, …

In this paper, we introduce a method to measure shared leadership in Wikipedia as a step in
developing a new model of online leadership. We show that editors with varying degrees of …

We present results on a study of two levels of Wikipedia's article deletion process: speedy
deletions (or CSDs) and articles for deletions (or AfDs). Our findings indicate that the deletion …