Research:Evolution of Rules and Resources on Wikipedia

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Initiator: FUCaM (Facultés universitaires catholiques de Mons), Belgium

Project Name: Evolution of Rules and Resources on Wikipedia

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Researcher: Emmanuel Wathelet

Sponsor/supervisor: François Lambotte, PhD

Key objectives: Our research should help answer these questions: • The number of rules and resources is it growing? • Do they become more and more explicit? • Do they reflect an increased centralization of power and thus some form of hierarchy?


Begin date: 2010-09

End date: 2014-08