Emerging Norms at Wikipedia

How do social norms form? How do they change?

SantaFeInstitute_20160825_These are important questions because the behavioral effects on individuals that come from normative influence often occur at a level that never reaches consciousness. We simply follow the norm. Like the force of gravity, we don’t even notice; it’s just there.

A recent study by researchers at the Santa Fe Institute looked at how Wikipedia has developed its editorial “rules of the road”.

The study looks at how a disconnected community of editors have managed to interact over decades to build the the Wikipedia phenomenon by developing an evolving set of norms to guide editorial policy.

http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/Science/Complexity/2016/0324/The-source-code-of-political-power

Jim Hazy

Founder and CEO, Leadership Science, LLC

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