@inproceedings{ea4b0e3b0b754c91928c69e6fa3236b2,
title = "Effects of stigmergic and explicit coordination on Wikipedia article quality",
abstract = "Prior research on Wikipedia has noted the importance of both explicit coordination of edits (i.e., through the article Talk page) and stigmergic coordination (i.e., through the article itself). Using a panel data set of article quality and edits for 23 articles over time, we examine the impact of different kinds of edits on article quality. We find that stigmergically-coordinated edits seem to have the biggest effect on quality, but that explicit coordination of major edits also predicts article quality. The findings have implications for both research on coordination in Wikipedia and for supporting editors.",
author = "Kevin Crowston and Amira Rezgui",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved.; 53rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2020 ; Conference date: 07-01-2020 Through 10-01-2020",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.24251/hicss.2020.287",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "2346--2355",
editor = "Bui, {Tung X.}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2020",
address = "United States",
}