The role of face-to-face ties in voting behaviour in requests for adminship

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2024,

Schwitter, Nicole

Wikipedia features administrators who have special duties and privileges. These administrators are democratically elected in requests for adminship processes. This study explores the role of offline interactions in shaping election participation within these processes. Using fixed effects models and observational data from the German-language Wikipedia spanning twenty years of offline and online actions, this study finds significant effects of offline meeting participation on editors’ voting behaviour.