Templates and sovereignty: Wikipedia’s policy development and the reflection of community consensus

IF 4.5 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION
Steve Jankowski, Claudio Celis Bueno, Ouejdane Sabbah, Jakko Kemper
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This article examines how Wikipedians embed their sovereign authority within the development of the site’s multilingual policy environment. By drawing on the concepts of cultural techniques, imagined affordances, and online authority, the edits and comments of editors were examined through a discourse analysis of 15 rules across 15 years. With a focus on the English and Spanish-language Wikipedias and additional comparisons with the Arabic, Dutch, and French-language editions, our analysis presents a new perspective on Wikipedian self-governance. By paying attention to how Wikipedians designate the authority of rules through templates, we observed that an incredibly small number of editors use techniques to designate the sovereign authority of policies in ways that determine community consensus, rather than reflect it. This research provides further understanding of the democratic limitations of online peer production and self-governing communities dedicated to equal and diverse forms of participation.
模板与主权:维基百科的政策发展与社群共识的反映
本文探讨了维基人如何将他们的主权权威嵌入到网站多语言政策环境的发展中。通过借鉴文化技术、想象的启示和在线权威的概念,通过对15年来15条规则的话语分析,对编辑的编辑和评论进行了检查。通过关注英语和西班牙语维基百科,并与阿拉伯语、荷兰语和法语版本进行额外的比较,我们的分析呈现了一个关于维基人自治的新视角。通过关注维基人如何通过模板指定规则的权威,我们观察到,少数编辑使用技术来指定政策的主权权威,以决定社区共识的方式,而不是反映它。这项研究提供了对在线对等生产和致力于平等和多样化参与形式的自治社区的民主限制的进一步理解。
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New Media & Society
New Media & Society COMMUNICATION-
CiteScore
12.70
自引率
8.00%
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274
期刊介绍: New Media & Society engages in critical discussions of the key issues arising from the scale and speed of new media development, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and on both theoretical and empirical research. The journal includes contributions on: -the individual and the social, the cultural and the political dimensions of new media -the global and local dimensions of the relationship between media and social change -contemporary as well as historical developments -the implications and impacts of, as well as the determinants and obstacles to, media change the relationship between theory, policy and practice.
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