Identifying and understanding the problems of Wikipedia's peer governance: The case of inclusionists versus deletionists

First Monday

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Kostakis, Vasilis ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

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