Wikipedia in Short
Wikipedia in Short
Numbers, Rules, and Editors
This chapter gives a short introduction to Wikipedia and the Wikipedia community. After describing the origins and growth of Wikipedia, and providing facts and figures, it examines some of the important rules and behavioral norms used on Wikipedia that determine its social organization. It concludes with a discussion of the informal representation of self among Wikipedians and how they convey those representations to the community through their user pages and actions.
Keywords: growth of Wikipedia, Wikipedian statistics, representation of self in online communities, norms and rules of Wikipedia
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