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| − | '''Negotiating with Angry Mastodons: the Wikipedia Policy Environment as Genre Ecology''' - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2010, written by Jonathan T. Morgan and Mark Zachry. | + | '''Negotiating with Angry Mastodons: the Wikipedia Policy Environment as Genre Ecology''' - scientific work related to [[Wikipedia quality]] published in 2010, written by [[Jonathan T. Morgan]] and [[Mark Zachry]]. |
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| − | Groups collaborating in online spaces on complex, extended projects develop behavioral conventions and agreed-upon practices to structure and regulate their interactions and work. Collaborators on Wikipedia have developed a multi-tiered policy environment to document a set of evolving principles, processes, and rules to facilitate productive group collaboration. Previous quantitative studies have noted this hierarchical structure, but have evaluated the policy environment as a singular entity rather than investigating potential differences between the three main regulatory genres that enable it. These studies also excluded essays, the least official regulatory genre, from their analyses. Authors perform a comparative content analysis of all three genres (policies, guidelines, and essays) and demonstrate that they focus on different areas of community regulation. Drawing on the theory of genre ecologies authors discuss the possible role of unofficial genres such as essays in articulating and regulating work practices in online, organized collaborative work. | + | Groups collaborating in online spaces on complex, extended projects develop behavioral conventions and agreed-upon practices to structure and regulate their interactions and work. Collaborators on [[Wikipedia]] have developed a multi-tiered policy environment to document a set of evolving principles, processes, and rules to facilitate productive group collaboration. Previous quantitative studies have noted this hierarchical structure, but have evaluated the policy environment as a singular entity rather than investigating potential differences between the three main regulatory genres that enable it. These studies also excluded essays, the least official regulatory genre, from their analyses. Authors perform a comparative content analysis of all three genres (policies, guidelines, and essays) and demonstrate that they focus on different areas of community regulation. Drawing on the theory of genre ecologies authors discuss the possible role of unofficial genres such as essays in articulating and regulating work practices in online, organized collaborative work. |
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Negotiating with Angry Mastodons: the Wikipedia Policy Environment as Genre Ecology - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2010, written by Jonathan T. Morgan and Mark Zachry.
Overview
Groups collaborating in online spaces on complex, extended projects develop behavioral conventions and agreed-upon practices to structure and regulate their interactions and work. Collaborators on Wikipedia have developed a multi-tiered policy environment to document a set of evolving principles, processes, and rules to facilitate productive group collaboration. Previous quantitative studies have noted this hierarchical structure, but have evaluated the policy environment as a singular entity rather than investigating potential differences between the three main regulatory genres that enable it. These studies also excluded essays, the least official regulatory genre, from their analyses. Authors perform a comparative content analysis of all three genres (policies, guidelines, and essays) and demonstrate that they focus on different areas of community regulation. Drawing on the theory of genre ecologies authors discuss the possible role of unofficial genres such as essays in articulating and regulating work practices in online, organized collaborative work.
