Hello Ofer Arazy,
I remember your paper with M. Lisa Yeo which gave me important insight
about wikis in corporations.
If I understand you well, you are like a historian looking for primary
sources of institutions that deal with certain events, and the problem is
that some of those sources are not public?
With regard to my experience in the arbitration committee of German
Wikipedia: that committee has an external, non public wiki for discussing
cases in private. I don't know about any rules concerning a later
publication, comparable to the 30 years limit of restricted government
papers. It might be possible to find out who was on the arbitration
committee of English Wikipedia at that time, contact them and ask them to
publish what can be published, or at least give you access under certain
conditions.
In general, I am now busy e.g. with collaboration mechanisms in wikis and
with wikis in general. If you are interested in an exchange about these
topics, you may contact me for talking about.
Kind regards
Ziko van Dijk
user: Ziko
Am Fr., 7. Dez. 2018 um 05:53 Uhr schrieb Ofer Arazy :
> Thanks, Lodewijk
>
> I'm interested in the English Wikipedia.
> I'm studying he extent to which various governance mechanisms shape an
> article's evolutionary trajectory (not going into the details of how that
> trajectory is recorded and represented). The unit of analysis is a
> particular article. My focus is on the application of mechanisms that
> intended to alleviate conflicts.
> So for the particular article mentioned - Gdansk - I would look at when
> conflicts within this article have required mediation, arbitration or
> polls.
> I'm hoping this clarifies things.
>
> Ofer
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> On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 7:22 PM L.Gelauff wrote:
>
> > Hi Ofer,
> >
> > Could you explain a bit more of the background what kind of questions
> > you're trying to answer? I have been looking into voting on Wikipedia
> > myself, and getting clean data is a challenge indeed.
> >
> > Are you only interested in English or also in other communities? Do you
> > refer with 'article' to the lemma around which a dispute was settled (in
> > arbitration, it's often not a particular lemma) or rather the section of
> > the rules that the ruling would refer to (quite common in Dutch, not sure
> > if it is in other languages).
> >
> > As for polls, outside the 2010 dataset on admin elections in English
> > Wikipedia, I have been unable to find any readily available data myself.
> > Most likely, you'd have to collect it from various pages and interpret
> the
> > data. It depends on the type of polls you're interested in, how straight
> > forward that is. (If I overlooked something, I would be happy to be
> > corrected!)
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Lodewijk Gelauff
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 11:45 PM Ofer Arazy wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > As part of my research on governance mechanisms in Wikipedia, I'm
> looking
> > > for data regarding mediation, arbitration, and polls.
> > > Are records of mediation and arbitration committees (dates, the
> article,
> > > decisions) and on voting readily available?
> > > How could I gain access to this data?
> > > I'm particularly interested on data regarding the Gdansk article (
> > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gda%C5%84sk), but would be happy to
> > retrieve
> > > data for other articles as well.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Ofer Arazy
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