TY - GEN
T1 - Is Wikipedia inefficient? Modelling effort and participation in Wikipedia
AU - Crowston, Kevin
AU - Jullien, Nicolas
AU - Ortega, Felipe
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Concerns have been raised about the decreased ability of Wikipedia to recruit editors and in to harness the effort of contributors to create new articles and improve existing articles. But, as [1], [2] explained, in collective projects, in the initial stage of the project, people are few and efforts costly; in the diffusion phase, the number of participants grows as their efforts are rewarding; and in the mature phase, some inefficiency may appear as the number of contributors is more than the work requires. In this paper, thanks to original data we extract from 36 of the main language projects, we compare the efficiency of Wikipedia projects in different languages and at different states of development to examine this effect.
AB - Concerns have been raised about the decreased ability of Wikipedia to recruit editors and in to harness the effort of contributors to create new articles and improve existing articles. But, as [1], [2] explained, in collective projects, in the initial stage of the project, people are few and efforts costly; in the diffusion phase, the number of participants grows as their efforts are rewarding; and in the mature phase, some inefficiency may appear as the number of contributors is more than the work requires. In this paper, thanks to original data we extract from 36 of the main language projects, we compare the efficiency of Wikipedia projects in different languages and at different states of development to examine this effect.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2013.368
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2013.368
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84875507565
SN - 9780769548920
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 3197
EP - 3206
BT - Proceedings of the 46th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2013
T2 - 46th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2013
Y2 - 7 January 2013 through 10 January 2013
ER -