Does the Acquaintance Relation Close up the Administrator Community of Polish Wikipedia?

摘要

The aim of this paper is to answer a question if a group of administrators of Polish-language Wikipedia is closing up because of relation of acquaintance. The administrators are usually nominated by the community and then elected by voting. This research is an attempt to find out whether the community is not becoming less open to new users and new potential administrators, because of their lack of chances to gain reputation. The key here is the understanding of social aspects driving the process of Request for Adminship (RfA) votings. Based on our previous work focused on social networks induced from collective activity of wikipedians, this paper extends it by the annual analysis of obtained statistics and examination of clustering coefficient as an approximation of social capital. We present the dynamics of relationships between voters and candidates across several years of Polish Wikipedia development.