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CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Determinants of wikipedia quality: the roles of global and local contribution inequality
The success of Wikipedia and the relative high quality of its articles seem to contradict conventional wisdom. Recent studies have begun shedding light on the processes contributi...
Ofer Arazy, Oded Nov
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Readers are not free-riders: reading as a form of participation on wikipedia
The success of Wikipedia as a large-scale collaborative effort has spurred researchers to examine the motivations and behaviors of Wikipedia’s participants. However, this resear...
Judd Antin, Coye Cheshire
HICSS
2009
IEEE
127views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
14 years 7 days ago
A Conceptual and Operational Definition of 'Social Role' in Online Community
Both online and off, people frequently perform particular social roles. These roles organize behavior and give structure to positions in local networks. As more of social life bec...
Eric Gleave, Howard T. Welser, Thomas M. Lento, Ma...
ICWSM
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Wikipedian Self-Governance in Action: Motivating the Policy Lens
While previous studies have used the Wikipedia dataset to provide an understanding of its growth, there have been few attempts to quantitatively analyze the establishment and evol...
Ivan Beschastnikh, Travis Kriplean, David W. McDon...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Don't look now, but we've created a bureaucracy: the nature and roles of policies and rules in wikipedia
Wikis are sites that support the development of emergent, collective infrastructures that are highly flexible and open, suggesting that the systems that use them will be egalitari...
Brian S. Butler, Elisabeth Joyce, Jacqueline Pike