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the Wikipedia community. During the experiment, it was noted on the Administrator's noticeboard/Incidents page that a seemingly random IP editor was "handing...

chances to become an administrator: the admin-candidates who do more language coordination have a higher chance of becoming an administrator than those who...

Relation Close up the Administrator Community of Polish Wikipedia?" investigates why the Polish Wikipedia community of Administrators is growing slower than...

[contribute] [archives] Automatic detection of "infiltrating" Wikipedia admins; Wiki, or 'pedia? With contributions by: Brian Keegan, Piotr Konieczny,...

online experiments with the intent of measuring social preferences, and administered them to a group of volunteer Wikipedia editors to understand whether...

and largely complete; women "slightly overrepresented"; talking like an admin With contributions by: William Skaggs, Max Klein, Piotr Konieczny, Robert...

takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]" By: Bri and Tilman Bayer Reviewed by Bri and Tilman Bayer A paper titled...

economies of scale), and efficient Wikipedias are significantly more administered. "#Wikipedia on Twitter: Analyzing Tweets about Wikipedia": See the review...

looking at Requests for Adminship (RfA) discussions in the Polish Wikipedia. The paper presents a number of statistics about adminship in the Polish Wikipedia...

examined statistical relations between the voting behavior in requests for adminships (RfAs) and the on-wiki social contacts of participants. The paper includes...

"Decline of adminship candidatures on Polish Wikipedia", "What it takes to become an admin: Insights from the Polish Wikipedia", "Predicting admin elections...

additional factors such as elite contributors, Wikipedia's policy or its administration have also been mentioned. We adjudicate between such explanations by...

as contrasted with the freedom-reducing tendencies of censorship, administrative control, and bureaucratization. The authors argue that the common solution...

status affect peer evaluations. The Wikipedia case focuses on requests for adminship (RfAs), the most prominent example of peer evaluation in Wikipedia and...

the requests for adminship (RfAs) in Wikipedia" ("Explizite Neutralität in Wählernetzwerken – Eine Analyse der Requests for Adminship (RfAs) in Wikipedia"...

user-talk-page interactions. Leaders were defined as admins, and periphery editors as non-administrators; this operationalization may raise some doubts about...

paper examines the breakdown of edits by administrators immediately after a successful Request for Adminship. The results, based on qualitative coding...

were ultimately reversed (once ahead of schedule). Emerging from this administrivia is a picture of Wikipedia's highest institutions straining under the...

analyzed all (non-neutral) votes in the English Wikipedia's request for adminship process cast from its inception in 2003 until 2013. These form a directed...

restricted to users with oversight privileges and later extended to administrators. The study analyzes a year of public deletion logs and the contents...

also considered additional metrics designed to measure "Impacts on administration", namely the number of user blocks, page protections, and Checkuser...

both during a player's active years and after retirement." "Request for Adminship (RFA) within Wikipedia: How Do User Contributions Instill Community Trust...

content). b. "the effort associated with participation in coordination and administrative work, such as editing the articles’ Talk Pages". Again, the authors...

editors who have considered their privacy while editing", including some administrators and Wikimedia Foundation employees In both groups, the majority (8 in...

- 41 where the suspected use of sockpuppets was confirmed by "the administrator’s verdict" (presumably most of them based on Checkuser evidence), and...

workshops on the subject". Recent changes visualization designed to assist admins: A paper titled "Feeling the Pulse of a Wiki: Visualization of Recent Changes...

pages." Researchers found that male administrators tend to use an impersonal and neutral tone. Non-administrator females used more relational forms of...

submission rejected? Is the power of experienced Wikipedia volunteers or administrators superior to that of a newbie editor? The answer is yes—in the same way...

of articles, editors, active editors, editors with elevated user rights (admins, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, rollbackers)". The authors indicate...

also taking into account whether the message comes from an administrator or a non-administrator. Their first conclusion is that messages sent by both kinds...

elements and new editors. Predicting admin elections based on social network analysis: A paper modeled all admin elections on the Polish Wikipedia (since...

policy change to remove the rights of inactive administrators did not reduce the (already low) frequency of admin accounts being compromised. Elmimouni, Houda;...

platforms for online communities. It is a pattern that grants user-administrators absolutist reign over their fiefdoms, with competition among them as...

from Boise State University (collaborating with an English Wikipedia administrator) present a machine learning framework for "automatically detecting Wikipedia...

participate in the [deletion] discussion; and 2) how to make it efficient for administrators to make decision based on the discussion. To solve the first problem...

investigates the emotions expressed in article and user talk pages. "Administrators tend to be more positive than regular users", and the paper suggests...

existed from 2007 to 2008. It was composed of admins, received complaints which in 80 % of cases involved admins, dismissed nearly all cases presented, ruled...

Security Force role (checkusers and oversighters) have more power than administrators (sysops and bureaucrats) because being a sysop is an informal prerequisite...

characteristics with those of Wikipedia: In contrast with Wikipedia, the administrative structure of OSM is unknown and not very well defined within the community...

partly trust on par with other sources, as it is surveilled by a kind of administrators”."  Christensen, T.B. (2015). Wikipedia as a Tool for 21st Century Teaching...

Data Collection and Analysis in Mixed Method Implementation Research". Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research 42 (5):...

trust in strangers in a sample of 58 English Wikipedia administrators. We show that low-trusting admins exercise their policing rights significantly more (e...

Medicine examined how quickly safety warnings by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for 22 prescription drugs were incorporated into the corresponding...

mailing list. This was followed by an entry on the English Wikipedia administrators' noticeboard (which includes a list of all accounts used for this particular...

of a small series of semi-structured user interviews with Wikipedia administrators and editors. The results point at a number of drawbacks in the design...

actions (p. 10)” is something that should be considered when moderators (administrators) consider blocking users for transgressions to community standards....

2007 about the use of inaccurate credentials by active Wikipedian and administrator Essjay. The paper is framed in terms of the literature from organization...

terms of edits. When editors increase their participation or become administrators, they still prefer editing content imbued with identity-based meanings...

criteria for speedy deletion (CSD) specify the only cases in which administrators have broad consensus to bypass deletion discussion, at their discretion...

stress of interpersonal conflict and overburdened volunteers, especially admins. It then adds the methods and findings from new research on "more experienced...

users are aware of emotional expressions. Other Wikipedia authors, administrators, and bots could flag content that needs correction also with respect...

their sample size to the top 10% most active editors. After excluding administrators and recently inactive editors, they handed out 300 barnstars "with a...

users. Notably, the interviewed editors did not view elements such as administrator involvement, mediation or voting as important. The paper concludes that...

often an editor’s edits are reverted or how often an editor is assigned administrative tasks could be monitored by the moderators to determine whether an editor...

Science, David Ludwig (a scholar of philosophy at Columbia University and admin on the German Wikipedia) argues "that we should treat Wikipedia as part...

"G11. Unambiguous advertising or promotion", compared to user pages of administrators which were assumed to be advertising-free. In tests (which apart from...

levels of responsibility and professionalism in the community, such as adminship. Still, it’s highly questionable whether the 8 interviews, which mainly...

society or association' or the 'highest-level elected or appointed administrative post at a major academic institution,' [...] There are gendered and...

clearance, fat extraction , fluid and electrolyte regulation, anesthesia administration , or vital sign monitoring. Likewise, the liposuction procedure description...

semi-distributed among several nodes structured in semi-centralised clusters (administrators and editors control what is accepted or rejected in case of conflict)...

differentiation regarding roles and statuses of Wikipedians (content- vs. administration-related users). These group-related processes can be seen as a mediating...

post is made by an registered user or not, and whether he/she was an administrator at the time of making the post. It also captures the Wikipedia age of...

post is made by an registered user or not, and whether he/she was an administrator at the time of making the post. It also captures the Wikipedia age of...

about the NPOV and BLP (biographies of living persons) policies, the administrator's noticeboard, and "lists of editors brought up in arbitration committee...

focused on producing images of different subjects, a network of Commons admins that handle copyright issues, a network of categorizers that work to sort...

cultural context content is generated by anonymous users, and also administrators engage proportionally more than plain registered editors [...]" (cf...

in direct supervision (scaling exponent: 0.9), as represented by the administrators’ activities, is disproportionately limited. Finally, the rate of rule...