File:One path or many, Policy development and diffusion across Wikipedia language editions.pdf
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English: Presentation slides for Wikimania 2023 Title: One path or many? Policy development and diffusion across Wikipedia language editions We test both theories using data on 60 policies shared by 245 Wikipedia language editions. We find the most popular policies are the first adopted. We find more evidence for a common shared path than several. The Wikipedias are a petri dish for the diffusion of policy in collective action institutions more broadly. How similar are their policy systems, and how similar are the paths they took to find them? By collecting all cross-linked papers in the project namespace and vetting at least one language version, we are able build a human-vetted, computer legible indication of cross-edition equivalence of policy structures, despite our ignorance of 326 of the 332 languages that Wikipedia is written in. With this, we extracted the order of adoption of 61 policies that we shared across the editions. We find that policies that are shared tend to be shared widely, that nearly every shared policy can be found in the English edition, and that the clearest predictor of policy adoption order is policy popularity across editions. Although we do not definitively eliminate the possibility that language editions follow multiple paths in converging on their policy systems, the evidence suggests that editions follow a single noisy developmental path, potentially suggesting strong influence across editions and a stronger role of common structural constraints than diverse cultural constraints in determining patterns of policy adoption. Our results point to a strong culture of sharing among the most common policies within Wikipedia language editions. Encouraging editions to draw from these highly shared policies, rather than developing their own, may economize on the finite time and energy of each project's volunteers. This seems to be particularly likely to be true in small projects. |
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| Source | Seth Frey, Weijun Yuan : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hyAtJize_UjZRzk9zBQxXoiDKlz3gBN6/edit#slide=id.p1 |
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Zhaozhi Li, Political science, Washington University in St. Louis |
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