Dariusz Jemielniak
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780804789448
- eISBN:
- 9780804791205
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804789448.003.0002
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies
This chapter gives a short introduction to Wikipedia and the Wikipedia community. After describing the origins and growth of Wikipedia, and providing facts and figures, it examines some of the ...
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This chapter gives a short introduction to Wikipedia and the Wikipedia community. After describing the origins and growth of Wikipedia, and providing facts and figures, it examines some of the important rules and behavioral norms used on Wikipedia that determine its social organization. It concludes with a discussion of the informal representation of self among Wikipedians and how they convey those representations to the community through their user pages and actions.Less
This chapter gives a short introduction to Wikipedia and the Wikipedia community. After describing the origins and growth of Wikipedia, and providing facts and figures, it examines some of the important rules and behavioral norms used on Wikipedia that determine its social organization. It concludes with a discussion of the informal representation of self among Wikipedians and how they convey those representations to the community through their user pages and actions.
