Submissions/Feudal Wikipedia


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This is an open submission for Wikimania 2010.


Title of the submission

Feudal Wikipedia
The emergence of Government on Wikipedia

Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, panel, presentation)
Author of the submission

Marc A. Pelletier

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Coren

Country of origin

Canada

Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)
Personal homepage or blog
Abstract (please use no less than 300 words to describe your proposal)

We examine the parallels between the emergence of government structures and societal organization in early Medieval Europe and Wikipedia; examining the similarities and divergences as they developed over nine years of life, and their observable effects on the content and contributors of the encyclopedia.

We will examine what lessons may be learned from the instabilities of emerging sociopolitical structures and how applicable they may be to the future evolution of governance on community-run collaborative content construction in general, and Wikipedia in particular.

Track (People and Community/Knowledge and Collaboration/Infrastructure)

People and Community

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