Do as I do: Authorial leadership in Wikipedia

Proceedings of the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 143-156

  Reagle Jr , Joseph M ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Authorial; Benevolent dictator; Leadership; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

AUTHORIAL; BENEVOLENT DICTATOR; LEADERSHIP; WIKIPEDIA;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; ONLINE SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

WEBSITES;

EID: 41149135454     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1296951.1296967     Document Type: Conference Paper

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