[Air-l] wikipedia research?

Tue Oct 10 06:52:45 PDT 2006

Related here is David Niece's work on conspicuous contribution

See, for example: 
http://numenor.lib.uic.edu/fmconference/viewabstract.php?id=18

Robert

Karim R. Lakhani wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I suspect the motivation structure for wikipedia will be very similar  
>to open source.
>
>Denise Anthony from Dartmouth Sociology has a great paper comparing  
>"quality" of entries from "good samaritans" vs "zealots." - showing  
>that the contributions from anonymous participants tends to be quite  
>higher than expected. https://www.dartmouth.edu/~socy/faculty/ 
>anthony.html
>
>I also think that Guido Hertel from University of Würzburg Dept of  
>Psychology has done some work on motivations in wikipedia - following  
>on the footsteps of his study on motivations in the linux kernel  
>community.  http://wy2x05.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ao/research/
>
>I think its a rich place for research on distributed innovation and  
>collaboration.
>
>Best
>
>Karim
>
>
>On Oct 8, 2006, at 7:15 AM, Dr. Christian Stegbauer wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Recently we have started with a research project to investigate how  
>>and
>>why people collaborate in wikipedia.
>>Why people are engaged in the encyclopedia could not be  explained  by
>>individual motivation.
>>We hope to find some explanations in the commitment of the core  
>>group of
>>the activists and in the picture of the different positions of all
>>participants .
>>We will conduct network analysis of different levels of Wikipeda, like
>>the articles, the discussions around articles, different mailing  
>>lists etc.
>>The project will last two years, but I am sure we can present some of
>>our first results at the Sunbelt Conference in Corfu next year.
>>
>>Christian
>>
>>
>>
>>danah boyd schrieb:
>>    
>>
>>>Aaron Swartz is looking into what constitutes "the community" on
>>>Wikipedia through content analysis (challenging the fact that only
>>>500 people edit the majority of Wikipedia).
>>>
>>>Andrea Forte (Georgia Tech) is doing a qualitative study of Wikipedia
>>>culture.
>>>
>>>Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg (IBM) have been building
>>>visualizations of Wikipedia's editing patterns.
>>>
>>>These are the key people that i know looking into Wikipedia from
>>>different angles.  Andrea's probably your best bet for looking at
>>>motivation.  That said, some very interesting bits are coming out of
>>>Aaron's work... namely that the kinds of edits made by anonymous
>>>folks are very different (and often content more detailed content)
>>>than those made from people with accounts who are frequent editors.
>>>
>>>(Jimmy - do you know of other studies going on?)
>>>
>>>danah
>>>
>>>
>>>On Oct 7, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Barry Wellman wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Having had several experiences with Wikipedia entries and edits
>>>>this week,
>>>>I am curious if anyone is doing research on:
>>>>
>>>>the social structure and reward structure of Wikipedists -- item
>>>>enterers,
>>>>editing others, administrators, etc. (I don't know the structure  
>>>>well
>>>>enough to know the nomenclature).
>>>>
>>>> Barry Wellman
>>>>  
>>>>____________________________________________________________________ 
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>>>>Toronto
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>>>>+1-416-978-7162
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>>PD Dr. Christian Stegbauer
>>Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
>>Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften
>>Institut für Gesellschafts- und Politikanalyse
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>>kommunikation at gesellschaft
>>Journal für alte und neue Medien aus soziologischer,  
>>kulturanthropologischer
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>>demnächst:
>>Stegbauer, Christian / Rausch, Alexander
>>Strukturalistische Internetforschung. 2006. Ca. 240 S. Wiesbaden,  
>>VS-Verlag,*
>>ISBN: 3-531-15110-X
>>und
>>Stegbauer, Christian
>>Geschmackssache? Eine kleine Soziologie für Genießer.
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