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Identifying shared leadership in Wikipedia

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Haiyi Zhu,

Robert E. Kraut,

Yi-Chia Wang,

Aniket KitturAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 3431 - 3434

https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979453

Published: 07 May 2011 Publication History

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In this paper, we introduce a method to measure shared leadership in Wikipedia as a step in developing a new model of online leadership. We show that editors with varying degrees of engagement and from peripheral as well as central roles all act like leaders, but that core and peripheral editors show different profiles of leadership behavior. Specifically, we developed machine learning models to automatically identify four types of leadership behaviors from 4 million messages sent between Wikipedia editors. We found strong evidence of shared leadership in Wikipedia, with editors in peripheral roles producing a large proportion of leadership behaviors.

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CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

May 2011

3530 pages

ISBN:9781450302289

DOI:10.1145/1978942

General Chair:
Desney Tan
Microsoft Research
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Vienna University of Technology
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Carl Gutwin
University of Saskatchewan
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Bo Begole
PARC
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Wendy A. Kellogg
IBM Research

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