Open AccessContribution, social networking, and the request for adminship process in Wikipedia
Author(s) -
Romain Picot-Clémente,
Cécile Bothorel,
Nicolas Jullien
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
hal (le centre pour la communication scientifique directe)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.1145/2788993.2806211
Subject(s) - promotion (chess) , process (computing) , peer production , computer science , knowledge management , world wide web , knowledge production , production (economics) , open source , internet privacy , public relations , data science , political science , software , politics , law , economics , macroeconomics , programming language , operating system
Epistemic communities are said to be project-oriented communities of experts, evaluated on their contribution in terms of knowledge, where the main criterion for promotion is knowledge production [3]. However, [5], for Wikipedia, [7], for open source, have argued that taking responsibility is an additional step from being a regular contributor, and social interactions with peers may be an additional requirement for being promoted [6].
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