Old, but still interesting.
Production communities are often described in terms of a core-periphery structure, which entails a dense, cohesive core, and a sparse, unconnected periphery (Borgatti and Everett 2000). Contributors play different roles, with the majority of contributors, who are not very active, at the community’s periphery, and a small minority who take on additional responsibilities and privileges constituting the core (Long and Siau 2007).
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Exactly! Though I would have chosen a better example, probably sysop/rollbacker or something like that.First, a particular privilege can contain all of the rights of another access privilege and more, indicating a higher rank of the former privilege (e.g. ‘filemovers’ have the rights of ‘users’ and in addition can rename files)
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Most of the conclusions of the study are fairly obvious for anyone familiar with Wikipedia's system. However, Table 4 page 9 confirms a suspicion I have had for a long time - that passing an RfA makes a user quit, or at least reduce, content work. -45% correlation between admins and content quality assurance.