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CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 1 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
HICSS
2008
IEEE
103views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
On the Inequality of Contributions to Wikipedia
—Wikipedia is one of the most successful examples of massive collaborative content development. However, many of the mechanisms and procedures that it uses are still unknown in d...
Felipe Ortega, Jesús M. González-Bar...
HT
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Does it matter who contributes: a study on featured articles in the german wikipedia
The considerable high quality of Wikipedia articles is often accredited to the large number of users who contribute to Wikipedia's encyclopedia articles, who watch articles a...
Klaus Stein, Claudia Hess
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 1 days ago
Technology-mediated contributions: editing behaviors among new wikipedians
The power-law distribution of participation characterizes a wide variety of technology-mediated social participation (TMSP) systems, and Wikipedia is no exception. A minority of a...
Judd Antin, Coye Cheshire, Oded Nov
WIKIS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Measuring the wikisphere
Due to the inherent difficulty in obtaining experimental data from wikis, past quantitative wiki research has largely been focused on Wikipedia, limiting the degree that it can be...
Jeff Stuckman, James Purtilo