I like Lam et al's work on deletion decisions in the English Wikipedia: The Effects of Group Composition on Decision Quality in a Social Production Community http://www.grouplens.org/node/450
Cheers, Morten On 28 September 2013 07:56, Piotr Konieczny <[email protected]> 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, > PhDhttp://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKoniecznyhttp://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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