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Do As I Do: Authorial Leadership in Wikipedia" WikiSym 09
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Joseph M. Reagle
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@MISC{Reagle_doas,
author = {Joseph M. Reagle},
title = {Do As I Do: Authorial Leadership in Wikipedia" WikiSym 09},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
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 as 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.
