A Community (English; Plural: Communities [engl./dt.], Communitys) is a group of persons, who develop common knowledge, divide experiences and develop their own identity. Communities profit from the principle that all participants contribute to success, by bringing in their knowledge. The anglisierende term was in-patriated also in Germany, because the dictionary translation "“community"” describes more than a social group.

To that extent the term "“Community"” is more closely calm in German than the English community, which generally means a social community or community.

Wikipedia is called frequently as example of one on-line community.

Occurrence

Communities exist in different developments, among other things

• On-line Community
• Off-line Community
• Community OF Practice (copilot)
• Learning Community
• Distributed Community
• Gated Community

A on-line Community operates a Website on the Web Surfer with similarly stored interests meets and its experiences exchanges.

A off-line Community operates partially likewise a Website on the user Group participants with similarly stored interests and their experiences exchanges themselves, these serves however mostly just the date switching before forthcoming meetings (user Group Meeting, user Group route).

Beside Communities, which stand for all prospective customers openly, also closed Communities exists.

Find from Communities

Can be tried by analysis of social networks and other relations and communication structures to determine Communities automatically or part-automatically. For example become in the Bibliometrie (more general: the Informetrie) by analysis of quotation graphs of networks of scientists examines. Possible procedures for finding Communities are among other things:

• Cluster analysis
• Rivers and cuts in networks
• HITS algorithm
• Coincidence path

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