Editing CommunityData:Wikia rises and declines (section)

=== Generalizability ===

We are studying a lot of Wikis. Our theories are of concern to other kinds of communities (e.g. Reddit, OSM). We don’t know if our results generalize to such settings.

Communities might make rules in response to other kinds of crises (consider instances of harassment). We don’t know if our results will generalize to rules created in response to other crises. Maybe governance strategies created in response to newcomers are more damaging to newcomers than governance systems targeted at managing other kinds of crises.