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In seemingly egalitarian collaborative on-line communities, like Wikipedia, there is often a paradoxical, or perhaps merely playful, use of the title "Benevolent Dictator" for leaders. I explore discourse around the use of this title so a s to address how leadership works in open content commu- nities. I first review existing literature on "emergent lead - ership" and then relate excerpts from community discourse on how leadership is understood, performed, and discussed by Wikipedians. I conclude by integrating concepts from existing literature and my own findings into a theory of "au- thorial" leadership.
Conference: International Symposium on Wikis - WIKIS , pp. 143-156, 2007
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    • ...A major focus of Wikipedia research has been the emergence of incentive systems and governance based on participation and reputation [6, 11, 17]...

    Jonathan Grudin, et al. Wikis at work: success factors and challenges for sustainability of en...

    • ...(Another 15% use Wikipedia content as source material for computational linguistic analysis.) Wikipedia research makes use of the publicly accessible content, revision histories, and discussion pages, and includes studies of emerging management practices based on accounts of key Wikipedians [2, 16]...
    • ...The most germane prior research is that on Wikipedia, which includes work on newcomer experiences [2, 3], conflict resolution and governance [11, 16], content quality control [18, 23] and encouraging participation by lowering participation barriers [4] and providing incentives [12]...

    Erika Shehan Poole, et al. A taxonomy of Wiki genres in enterprise settings

    • ...• intrinsic motivation and self-selection for tasks [4,19,21]; • a charismatic, capable leader [19,20,21]; • a meritocratic, rational culture [19,21,23]; • a modular, granular division of labor [4,21]; and • use of collaborative technologies, such as CVS, TODO lists, and mailing lists [14,23]...
    • ...Reagle extends this reasoning to a theory of “authorial leadership” that applies to open content communities more generally [20]...
    • ...According to one key component of his theory, “Leaders often convince by persuasion and example though they also retain charismatic authority accumulated from their merit” [20]...
    • ...An OSS project leader’s dedication is threatened by “forking.” In most of these projects, it is widely believed that if members disagree with the direction a project is taking, they are always permitted to “fork” it: “a dissatisfied community, or some constituency thereof, can always leave and start again under new leadership” [20]...
    • ...As a result, leaders’ authority is “eternally contingent”; even the most dedicated leaders rely on the approval of the community [20]...

    Kurt Luther, et al. Why it works (when it works): success factors in online creative colla...

    • ...This perspective is very different from the traditional perspective of the Wikipedia that starts as an anarchy and became a dictatorship [20]...

    Manuela Aparício, et al. Producers and evaluators of information

    • ...In this way, Adler and de Alfaro present in [1] an automatic tool to infer the reputation level of Wikipedia editors, based on the content that have been added by those authors, and have not been later changed or removed by subsequent authors...
    • ...It is interesting to notice how basic organizational elements such as geographically distributed, asynchronous networked collaboration, project transparency and openness, production of living documents and project artifacts, the community-wide sense of project ownership, the use of consensus as the principal decision-making tool and even the presence of a trusted benevolent dictator [32] are all shared by initiatives falling in both areas...
    • ...Its values are restricted to the closed interval [0, 1] .A...

    Felipe Ortega, et al. On the Analysis of Contributions from Privileged Users in Virtual Open...

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