The evolution of Wikipedia's norm network

Future Internet

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Heaberlin, Bradi ^a   DeDeo, Simon ^a,b,c,d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis   (United States)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Governance; Knowledge commons; Norm networks; Oligarchy; Social norms; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

BUREAUCRACY; GOVERNANCE; KNOWLEDGE COMMONS; OLIGARCHY; SOCIAL NORM; WIKIPEDIA;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84991520260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19995903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/fi8020014     Document Type: Article

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