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Wikimedia Internal Stakeholders Wikimedia Internal Stakeholders
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The Board of Trustees The Board of Trustees
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Wikimedia Foundation Wikimedia Foundation
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Chapters Chapters
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WMF Relations with the Chapters WMF Relations with the Chapters
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WMF Relations with the Communities WMF Relations with the Communities
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Forking Forking
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Incomplete by Design? Incomplete by Design?
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6 Between Anarchy and Bureaucracy: Wikimedia Governance
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Published:May 2014
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Abstract
This chapter presents the major internal stakeholders of the Wikimedia movement: the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), the local chapters, and the Wikipedia communities. It describes the power struggles between them and explains their resources as well as cultural and ideological backgrounds. It reveals the drive of the chapters to professionalize their staff and operations as natural, even if at some point they fill the niche already occupied by the WMF. The chapter shows that even though to a common bystander they may seem as if they were on the verge of splitting (“forking”), the high number of disputes is actually typical for open-collaboration communities, as there is no fear of hierarchy to prevent people from freely expressing their opinions.
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