Decentralization in Wikipedia Governance

By Andrea Forte, Vanessa Larco, Amy S. Bruckman. Journal of Management Information Systems, 2009

306 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Computer Science Applications

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d2993dc34c676755caf4fa7bcd4e189df077fc6f

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Communication

In Computer Science Applications

Citations in the corpus

Guest editorial: qualitative studies in information systems: a critical review and some guiding principles (2013, background): “…manuscripts reviewed were case-based (about 93 percent), some authors used a set of interviews from stakeholders involved in the phenomenon (e.g., Forte et al. 2009; Kolfschoten et al. 2012), and/or a collection of texts (e.g., Berente et al. 2011, Mueller et al. 2010) on a given phenomenon…”
Data Governance in the Age of Large-Scale Data-Driven Language Technology (2022, background): “The Wikimedia projects offer a wealth of experience in highly collaborative and largely self-regulated data curation [56], similar to the goals in the proposed governance structure.”
Does Sample Size Matter in Qualitative Research?: A Review of Qualitative Interviews in is Research (2013, background): “Fort, Larco, and Bruckman [11] stated, “When themes began arising over and over in these interviews, we followed up by recruiting participants who have been involved in particular issues and policies” (p. 54).”
Citation Needed: A Taxonomy and Algorithmic Assessment of Wikipedia's Verifiability (2019, background): “s where reliable information is hard to come by,such as in breaking news events [27]. Wikipedia’s editor communities govern themselves through a set of collaboratively-created policies and guidelines [6, 19]. Among those, the Verifiability policy1 is a key mechanism that allows Wikipedia to maintain”
Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia (2020, background): “rg/10.1145/XXXXXXXXX 1 INTRODUCTION Wikipediaisthelargestencyclopediaeverbuilt,establishedthrough the collaborative effort of a large editor base, self-governed through agreed policies and guidelines [7, 16]. Thanks to the tenacious work *Robert West is a Wikimedia Foundation Research Fellow. This p”
ORES (2019, background): “ORES represents a shift towards a far more decoupled approach to ML, which gives more agency to Wikipedian volunteers, in line with Wikipedia’s long history more decentralized governance structures [28].”