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They are studying their own WikiProjects, and we will get together and write a paper that compares the our WikiProjects and tries to understand deeply how subgroups form, how they organize themselves, how newcomers became part of the community, why people write for
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http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Avatar:_The_Last_Airbender
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http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:WikiProject_American_Animation
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