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The eight roles of Wikipedians; do edit histories expose social relations among editors?

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By Guillaume Paumier, Brian Keegan and Tilman Bayer

A monthly overview of recent academic research about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, also published as the Wikimedia Research Newsletter.

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  • Timbo's Rule No. 5. There are five basic types of participants at Wikipedia: content creators, copy editors, vandal fighters, problem solvers, and people who are just there for the perpetual soap opera. The first four of these groups are useful, the fifth is not. Carrite (talk) 10:22, 3 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
WTH is Timbo? - üser:Altenmann >t 23:47, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
IMO there are six basic types: idealists, graphomaniacs, POV pushers, power addicts, paid editors, and those who don't have real life but hate social networking. - üser:Altenmann >t 23:47, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]



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