TY - GEN
T1 - Stigmergic coordination in Wikipedia
AU - Rezgui, Amira
AU - Crowston, Kevin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 ACM.
PY - 2018/8/22
Y1 - 2018/8/22
N2 - We look for evidence of stigmergic coordination (i.e., coordination mediated by changes to a shared work product) in the context of Wikipedia. Using a novel approach to identifying edits to the same part of a Wikipedia article, we show that a majority of edits to two example articles are not associated with discussion on the article Talk page, suggesting the possibility of stigmergic coordination. However, discussion does seem to be related to article quality, suggesting the limits to this approach to coordination.
AB - We look for evidence of stigmergic coordination (i.e., coordination mediated by changes to a shared work product) in the context of Wikipedia. Using a novel approach to identifying edits to the same part of a Wikipedia article, we show that a majority of edits to two example articles are not associated with discussion on the article Talk page, suggesting the possibility of stigmergic coordination. However, discussion does seem to be related to article quality, suggesting the limits to this approach to coordination.
KW - Coordination
KW - Distributed groups
KW - On-line epistemic community
KW - Stigmergy
KW - Wikipedia
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U2 - 10.1145/3233391.3233543
DO - 10.1145/3233391.3233543
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85056737884
T3 - Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OpenSym 2018
BT - Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OpenSym 2018
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 14th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OpenSym 2018
Y2 - 22 August 2018 through 24 August 2018
ER -