The Third Man: hierarchy formation in Wikipedia
Abstract Wikipedia articles are written by teams of independent volunteers in the absence of formal hierarchical organizational structures. How is coordination achieved under such conditions of extreme decentralization? Building on studies on the organization of dominance relations in animal and hum...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2017-07-01
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| Series: | Applied Network Science |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41109-017-0043-2 |