[Air-l] wikipedia research?

[Gilad Ravid]

Rafaeli, Sheizaf., Hayat, Tsahi & Ariel, Yaron. (2005). "Wikipedia Community: Users' Motivations and Knowledge Building". Presented at Cyberculture 3rd Global Conference. August 2005 Prague, Czech Republic

Rafaeli, Sheizaf., Hayat, Tsahi & Ariel, Yaron. (2005). "Wikipedians' sense of community, motivations, and knowledge building: a cross-cultural study" Proceedings of Wikimania 2005 - The First International Wikimedia Conference. August 2005 Frankfurt, Germany

Not really a wikipedia research, but very relevant.

Rafaeli, S., Raban, R.D., & Ravid, G., (2005). Social and Economic Incentives in Google Answers. ACM Group 2005 conference, Sanibel Island, Florida, November 2005. http://jellis.net/research/group2005/papers/RafaeliRabanRavidGoogleAnswersGroup05.pdf


Gilad
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From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of danah boyd
Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 11:37 PM
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: Re: [Air-l] wikipedia research?

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).
>
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