Contribution, social networking, and the request for adminship process in Wikipedia

Abstract

Epistemic communities are said to be project-oriented communities of experts, evaluated on their contribution in terms of knowledge, where the main criterion for promotion is knowledge production [3]. However, [5], for Wikipedia, [7], for open source, have argued that taking responsibility is an additional step from being a regular contributor, and social interactions with peers may be an additional requirement for being promoted [6].