@inproceedings{c3daf65bfe6b48a68590de831c0006d0,
title = "Page protection: Another missing dimension of Wikipedia research",
abstract = "Page protection is a feature of wiki software that allows administrators to restrict contributions to particular pages. For example, pages are frequently protected so that they can only be edited by administrators. Page protection affects tens of thousands of pages in English Wikipedia and renders many of Wikipedia's most visible pages uneditable by the vast majority of visitors. That said, page protection has attracted very little attention and is rarely taken into account by researchers. This note describes page protection and illustrates why it plays an important role in shaping user behavior on wikis. We also present a new longitudinal dataset of page protection events for English Wikipedia, the software used to produce it, and results from tests that support both the validity of the dataset and the impact of page protection on patterns of editing.",
keywords = "Page protection, Peer production, Wikipedia, Wikis",
author = "Hill, {Benjamin Mako} and Aaron Shaw",
year = "2015",
month = aug,
day = "19",
doi = "10.1145/2788993.2789846",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OPENSYM 2015",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OPENSYM 2015",
note = "11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OPENSYM 2015 ; Conference date: 19-08-2015 Through 21-08-2015",
}