We look at some of these issues in:

Joyce, E., Pike, J. C., & Butler, B. S. (2013). Rules and Roles vs. Consensus 
Self-Governed Deliberative Mass Collaboration Bureaucracies. American 
Behavioral Scientist, 57(5), 576-594.

Joyce, E., Butler, B., & Pike, J. (2011, February). Handling flammable 
materials: Wikipedia biographies of living persons as contentious objects. 
InProceedings of the 2011 iConference (pp. 25-32). ACM.

(and there are references to other related papers there as well).


On Sep 28, 2013, at 8:56 AM, Piotr Konieczny wrote:

Hi everyone,

I am doing a lit review on the topic of democratic decision making on 
Wikipedia. I wonder - what are your favorite papers on this subject?

So far the most extensive discussions I've found are

Black, Laura, Ted Welser, Jocely DeGroot, and Daniel Cosley. 2008 "Wikipedia is 
not a democracy”: Deliberation and policy-making in an online community."
Hilbert, Martin. 2009. The Maturing Concept of E-Democracy: From E-Voting and 
Online Consultations to Democratic Value Out of Jumbled Online Chatter
Klemp. Nathaniel J. 2010. From Town-Halls to Wikis: Exploring Wikipedia's 
Implications for Deliberative Democracy.
Reagle's 2010 book subchapter on "Polling and Voting".
Firer-Blaess, Sylvain 2011. Wikipedia: an Example for Electronic Democracy? 
Decision, Discipline and Discourse in the Collaborative Encyclopedia

What did I miss?

In the broader scope, I'd also appreciate suggestions as to the best readings 
in the area of Internet communities and democracy. To be more precise, let me 
stress the word community here. The literature in e-democracy and related terms 
is of course very broad, but I am interested in studies of how online 
communities (like Wikipedia) make (quasi?)democratic decisions. Wikipedians 
vote, and Wikimedians in general do as well. How unique are they (are we...) in 
this? Who else has such votes? Redditors? Slashdotians? Other groups? What are 
the turnouts, trends? Would appreciate any information that comes to mind.

--
Piotr Konieczny, PhD
http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus

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