Canceling Disputes: How Social Capital Affects the Arbitration of Disputes on Wikipedia

This article examines how social capital affects the resolution of disputes by focusing on English Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee, sometimes described as “Wikipedia’s Supreme Court.” Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data, the article contends that the Arbitration Committee not only examine...

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Published in:Law & social inquiry 2024-05, Vol.49 (2), p.1060-1081
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Sanctions
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Collaboration
Committees
Compliance
Computer Science
Computers and Society
Decision making
Disputes
Editing
Editors
Egalitarianism
Encyclopedias
Humanities and Social Sciences
Information sources
Internet
Law
Narratives
Noncompliance
Sanctions
Social capital
Supreme courts
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