Don't look now, but we've created a bureaucracy: the nature and roles of policies and rules in wikipedia

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Averaging Gone Wrong: Using Time-Aware Analyses to Better Understand Behavior (2016, background): “This can be a natural response to limitations in the amount of available data: datasets may capture a small part of the community’s history [3]; timestamps may not be available [52,53]; snapshots may provide limited views of the community [11]; or the community itself may be small [39].”
Evaluating the use of search engine development tools in IT education (2010, unknown): “Lastly, it may also be exploited for ’s decision making-process, which is based on a “rough consensus” policy (Butler et al., 2008).”
Decentralization in Wikipedia Governance (2009, background): “[6] suggest that the power of wikis as collaborative environments is their flexibility; they can support diverse forms of social organization.”
Membership Turnover and Collaboration Success in Online Communities: Explaining Rises (2011, background): “However, organization processes in online communities are often guided by norms and rules for effective collaboration (Butler et al. 2008), which are often developed by the community as they work together (Hinds and Bailey 2003).”