Don't look now, but we've created a bureaucracy: the nature and roles of policies and rules in wikipedia Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:2915524, abstract = {Wikis are sites that support the development of emergent, collective infrastructures that are highly flexible and open, suggesting that the systems that use them will be egalitarian, free, and unstructured. Yet it is apparent that the flexible infrastructure of wikis allows the development and deployment of a wide range of structures. However, we find that the policies in Wikipedia and the systems and mechanisms that operate around them are multi-faceted. In this descriptive study, we draw on prior work on rules and policies in organizations to propose and apply a conceptual framework for understanding the natures and roles of policies in wikis. We conclude that wikis are capable of supporting a broader range of structures and activities than other collaborative platforms. Wikis allow for and, in fact, facilitate the creation of policies that serve a wide variety of functions.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Butler, Brian and Joyce, Elisabeth and Pike, Jacqueline}, booktitle = {CHI '08: Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {2915524}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1357054.1357227}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1357054.1357227}, comment = {It's not the wild wild west for long.}, doi = {10.1145/1357054.1357227}, isbn = {9781605580111}, keywords = {emergentstructure, rules, wikipedia}, pages = {1101--1110}, posted-at = {2009-04-03 20:13:32}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Don't look now, but we've created a bureaucracy: the nature and roles of policies and rules in wikipedia}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1357054.1357227}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2915524 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2915524 N2 - Wikis are sites that support the development of emergent, collective infrastructures that are highly flexible and open, suggesting that the systems that use them will be egalitarian, free, and unstructured. Yet it is apparent that the flexible infrastructure of wikis allows the development and deployment of a wide range of structures. However, we find that the policies in Wikipedia and the systems and mechanisms that operate around them are multi-faceted. In this descriptive study, we draw on prior work on rules and policies in organizations to propose and apply a conceptual framework for understanding the natures and roles of policies in wikis. We conclude that wikis are capable of supporting a broader range of structures and activities than other collaborative platforms. Wikis allow for and, in fact, facilitate the creation of policies that serve a wide variety of functions. SN - 9781605580111 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 1110 TI - Don't look now, but we've created a bureaucracy: the nature and roles of policies and rules in wikipedia PB - ACM T2 - CHI '08: Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems SP - 1101 KW - emergentstructure KW - rules KW - wikipedia N1 - It's not the wild wild west for long. AU - Butler, Brian AU - Joyce, Elisabeth AU - Pike, Jacqueline PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1357054.1357227 ER -