RT by @wikiresearch: our new paper with @makoshark and @katestarbird (forthcoming in CSCW) looks at how similar language editions on wikipedia deal with the threat of "governance capture" – the takeover of a project's mechanisms of governance by a small group of users.
https://blog.communitydata.science/governance-capture/ https://twitter.com/zkharazian/status/1747314407754076553
Community Data Science Collective · A new paper on the risk of nationalist governance capture in self-governed Wikipedia projectsWikipedia is one of the most visited websites in the world and the largest online repository of human knowledge. It is also both a target of and a defense against misinformation, disinformation, an…