What Does Research on the Online Community of Wikipedia Indicate

question 14

Multiple Choice

What does research on the online community of Wikipedia indicate about its language use?

• A) Editors, who hold a higher rank than administrators, tend to use more neutral, impersonal, and formal words.
• B) Administrators tend to use language to form and maintain connections.
• C) Male administrators are more relationship oriented than female editors.
• D) If the Wikipedia community wants to grow, it should increase the number of female administrators.

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Definitions:

Recession

A period of declining real GDP, accompanied by lower real income and higher unemployment.

Demand

The quantity of a good or service that consumers are willing and able to purchase at various prices over a given period of time.

Income Elasticity

A measurement of how the demand for a good or service changes in response to changes in consumers' income levels.

Recession

A period of economic decline across an economy lasting more than a few months, typically visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales.