Negotiating with Angry Mastodons: the Wikipedia Policy Environment as Genre Ecology

From Wikipedia Quality
Revision as of 05:49, 25 February 2021 by Phoebe (talk | contribs) (cats.)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to: navigation, search


Negotiating with Angry Mastodons: the Wikipedia Policy Environment as Genre Ecology
Authors
Jonathan T. Morgan
Mark Zachry
Publication date
2010
DOI
10.1145/1880071.1880098
Links
Original

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.

Embed

Wikipedia Quality

Morgan, Jonathan T.; Zachry, Mark. (2010). "[[Negotiating with Angry Mastodons: the Wikipedia Policy Environment as Genre Ecology]]".DOI: 10.1145/1880071.1880098.

English Wikipedia

{{cite journal |last1=Morgan |first1=Jonathan T. |last2=Zachry |first2=Mark |title=Negotiating with Angry Mastodons: the Wikipedia Policy Environment as Genre Ecology |date=2010 |doi=10.1145/1880071.1880098 |url=https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Negotiating_with_Angry_Mastodons:_the_Wikipedia_Policy_Environment_as_Genre_Ecology}}

HTML

Morgan, Jonathan T.; Zachry, Mark. (2010). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Negotiating_with_Angry_Mastodons:_the_Wikipedia_Policy_Environment_as_Genre_Ecology">Negotiating with Angry Mastodons: the Wikipedia Policy Environment as Genre Ecology</a>&quot;.DOI: 10.1145/1880071.1880098.