Tab sweep of items I reviewed regarding how social policies support or enable the success of wikis:
General Wiki Statistics
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List of the largest installations of Mediawiki |
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Information and stats about Wikimedia project |
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General Statistics of Wikipedia |
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Raw, public server-log style page statistics on Wikipedia |
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Example of user community mining the public statistics published by Wikipedia |
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Public charts showing Wikimedia usage stats |
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Examples of Wikipedia policies / social roles
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Welcoming Commitee |
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Example tool provided to select users on Wikimedia sites, along with the social policies that govern it — CheckUser |
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Checkuser |
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Wikipedia arbitration policy |
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The study of wikis and why and how they work
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How and Why Wikipedia Works: An Interview with Angela Beesley, Elisabeth Bauer, and Kizu Naoko |
http://dirkriehle.com/computer-science/research/2006/wikisym-2006-interview.pdf http://dirkriehle.com/computer-science/research/2006/wikisym-2006-interview.html |
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International Symposium on Wikis |
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From Little Things, Big Things Grow |
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Wiki Patterns |
http://www.wikipatterns.com/display/wikipatterns/Wikipatterns |
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measuring wiki viability |
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what makes wikis work |
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What makes wikis work well |
http://www.deltaknowledge.net/2008/08/what-makes-wiki-work-well.html |
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Viable wikis |
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Design principles of Wiki: How can so little do so much? |
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Specific Papers I found enlightening
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Cooperation and Quality in Wikipedia. |
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Authorial Leadership in Wikipedia. |
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Quantitative Analysis of theWikipedia Community of Users |
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Structuring Wiki Revision History |
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exposing wikipedia revision activity |
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/proceedings/research%20papers/18500102.pdf |
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Wiki Trust Metrics |
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/proceedings/research%20papers/18500017.pdf |
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measuring author contributions to the Wikipedia |
http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~luca/papers/08/wikisym08-users.pdf |
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a method for measuring co-authorship relationships in mediawiki |
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/proceedings/research%20papers/18500125.pdf |
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Cooperation and quality in Wikipedia |
http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/wikipedia/wikipedia07.pdf |
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Are wikis usable? |