Causal evidence for social group sizes from Wikipedia editing data

Human communities have self-organizing properties in which specific Dunbar Numbers may be invoked to explain group attachments. By analysing Wikipedia editing histories across a wide range of subject pages, we show that there is an emergent coherence in the size of transient groups formed to edit th...

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Main Authors: M. Burgess, R. I. M. Dunbar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2024-10-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.240514