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A monthly overview of recent academic research about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, also published as the Wikimedia Research Newsletter.
Nationalist governance capture in self-governed Wikipedia projects
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University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public, an interdisciplinary center involving UW's Information School, School of Law, and Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, published a preprint titled "Governance Capture in a Self-Governing Community: A Qualitative Comparison of the Serbo-Croatian Wikipedias" that examines capture of Wikipedia projects, focusing on Croatian Wikipedia. The paper found ...
[A] cabal [of nationalist editors] seized complete control of the governance of the encyclopedia, banned and blocked those who disagreed with them, and operated a network of fake accounts to give the appearance of grassroots support for their policies...
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The paper's findings diverge from those of the Foundation's own investigation in the way they focus on the capture of governance on Croatian Wikipedia as distinguished from other language-group wikis where it did not happen. The findings point at weak policies and norms that allowed capture to happen, especially the lack of policies around blocking, and the importance of integrity amongst the community's bureaucrats, who can grant and remove admin permissions. The authors state in the paper that it is the first academic work they know of "that has considered how distributed influence operations target, become deeply engaged with, and are facilitated by institutional and organizational arrangements within peer production communities like Wikipedia".
Related Signpost articles include "Croatian Wikipedia: capture and release" (Disinformation report, 2021-06-27) and Wikimedia Foundation builds "Knowledge Integrity Risk Observatory" to enable communities to monitor at-risk Wikipedias (Recent research, 2022-11-28).
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While we don't have and explicit anti-regionalism policy we do have MOS:COMMONALITY which encourages use of English that will be understood across the English speaking world. This might be called an anti-insularity 'policy'. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 20:13, 31 January 2024 (UTC).[reply]
Comment: This was a hysterical read, considering the fact that Serbian Wikipedia absolutely did not escape a similar fate — IмSтevan talk 16:31, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment:The quote "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining administrator behavior" could more to the point be frased as; 'lack of accountability' Andrez1 (talk) 12:24, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]