What 20 Million Bans Reveal About The Stress On Wikipedia’s Volunteersfrom the moderating-in-public deptThis article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The Wikipedia community is also sensitive to its rising importance, but not in the way you might think. So Wikipedia’s role has grown, but it is held together by a relatively small, shrinking community of unpaid volunteers. Bearing the costWikipedia’s openness is part of how its volunteer community grew in the first place. Ryan McGrady is Senior Research Fellow at the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, UMass AmherstFiled Under: bans, content moderation, moderation, wikipedia, wikisCompanies: wikimedia foundation, wikipedia