Finding social roles in Wikipedia

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Averaging Gone Wrong: Using Time-Aware Analyses to Better Understand Behavior (2016, background): “For example, sociological studies often use students who join a school in the same year to understand the effect of interventions [22, 30], and condition on the year in which people were born to understand people’s behavior, such as variations in financial decision-making [47] or opinions on issues…”
Can Large Language Models Transform Computational Social Science? (2023, background): “At the micro scale, there is the computational sociology of power (Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil et al., 2012; Bramsen et al., 2011; Prabhakaran et al., 2014, 2012) and social roles (Welser et al., 2011; Fazeen et al., 2011; Zhang et al., 2007; Yang et al., 2015; Maki et al., 2017).”
Digital Footprints: Opportunities and Challenges for Online Social Research (2014, background): “…of Wikipedians’ contributions and pose the interesting puzzle that “anonymous Good Samaritans” contributed among the highest-quality content, whereas Welser et al. (2011) point out that Wikipedians selforganize into roles, focusing on “cleaning up vandalism,” providing domain expertise, and so…”