Emergent Group Dynamics in Wikipedia Editing: Insights from Analyzing Causal Patterns in User Interactions

The study reveals an emergent coherence in the sizes of transient groups that form to edit Wikipedia page content, with two key group sizes - around N=8 for maximum contention, and around N=4 as a regular team size. These findings align with previous predictions about social group sizes and have implications for understanding the self-organizing properties of online communities.