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Wisdom of the crowd or technicity of content? Wikipedia as a sociotechnical system
2010
New Media & Society
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This article analyzes the sociotechnical system -the intricate collaboration between human users and automated content agents -that defines Wikipedia as a knowledge instrument. ...
Wikipedia is often considered as an example of 'collaborative knowledge'. Researchers have contested the value of Wikipedia content on various accounts. ...
Tracing the collaboration between human and non-human agents in Wikipedias thus allows for an interesting and unexpected insight into the culturally and linguistically diverse makeup of this global project ...
doi:10.1177/1461444810365297
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Peer Produced Innovation: An Exploration Of 'The Wisdom Of Crowds' In Virtual Worlds
2013
European Conference on Information Systems
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While researchers have examined the role of individuals in crowdsourcing for open innovation purposes (wisdom in crowds) there is a gap in our understanding of the collective intelligence of communities ...
This exploratory study reveals various insights into the intricate successes and tensions within the community studied, presenting practical implications in further studying the viability and sustainability ...
of informating, adhesion and cohesion (and other possible mechanisms) in other peer production contexts (such as collaboratively developed open content like Wikipedia), and (3) the interplay between technological ...
dblp:conf/ecis/CahalaneFF13
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Collaborative organizational forms: on communities, crowds, and new hybrids
2018
Journal of Organization Design
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Acknowledgements The author wishes to thank Accenture for funding, the editor, Maciej Workiewicz, two anonymous reviewers, and the following individuals for helpful comments: Øystein D. ...
Snow, Karim Lakhani, and Helene Loe Colman. ...
In the following, I outline implications for research and practice in terms of comparative analysis of organizational forms, the role of crowds, as well as the interplay between new technologies and new ...
doi:10.1186/s41469-018-0036-3
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With Enough Eyeballs All Searches are Diligent: Mobilizing the Crowd in Copyright Clearance for Mass Digitization
2016
Social Science Research Network
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Under the laws on orphan works introduced in many countries, items whose copyright status is uncertain may possibly be lawfully digitized, on condition that a "diligent search" of the copyright owners ...
Suitability of the crowdsourcing solution to the cultural heritage sector is discussed and challenges to implementation are identified. ...
For a detailed discussion of the dynamics by which quality is improved in large-scale collaborative projects, See Eric S. ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2806145
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Quantifying the Impact of Biopics on Wikipedia Articles
2022
Journal of Cases on Information Technology
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The results show that quality and content in Wikipedia articles increases significantly during the release time frame of corresponding biopics. ...
The authors look at the impact of the movie release on its corresponding biography article on Wikipedia by looking at various metrics of each revision in a Wikipedia article and analyze how the revisions ...
Crowd development: The
interplay between crowd evaluation and collaborative dynamics in Wikipedia. ...
doi:10.4018/jcit.20220701.oa5
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Developing a conceptual model of virtual organisations for citizen science
2010
International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering (IJODE)
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The conceptual model provides an example of a theory development process and discusses its application to an exploratory study. ...
Citizen science is a form of organization design for collaborative scientific research involving scientists and volunteers, for which Internet-based modes of participation enable massive virtual collaboration ...
NSF grant 09-43049, "VOSS: Theory and design of virtual organizations for citizen science". ...
doi:10.1504/ijode.2010.035191
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The Impact and Evolution of Group Diversity in Online Open Collaboration
2016
Management science
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O nline open collaboration efforts, such as Wikipedia articles and open source software development, often involve a large crowd with diverse experiences and interests. ...
It also has practical implications on the design of collaboration tools and new forms of organizing work in traditional organizations. ...
This categorization process often results in subgroup dynamics (us versus them) and a high level of interpersonal conflict. The effects of diversity depend upon the interplay of the two mechanisms. ...
doi:10.1287/mnsc.2015.2178
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Crowdsourcing and the Semantic Web: A Research Manifesto
2015
Human Computation
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Second, we look at the ways in which machine-processable semantics can benefit the design and management of crowdsourcing projects. ...
Second, we look at the ways in which machine-processable semantics can benefit the design and management of crowdsourcing projects. ...
the synergies between these two topics and discuss directions for future research. ...
doi:10.15346/hc.v2i1.2
dblp:journals/hc/SarasuaSNBL15
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How to Use Crowdsourcing Effectively: Guidelines and Examples
2015
Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries
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We introduce a framework for the analysis of the most important building blocks of such systems, as well as design and participation best practices that should guide their development. ...
We see it applied in order to motivate employees to engage with less rewarding daily routines, to attract the best possible ideas and approaches to boost innovation, or to complete data processing tasks ...
There is a large body of research in the crowdsourcing community studying optimal pricing strategies (Archak, 2010; Singer & Mittal, 2013) or the interplay between incentives and other factors such as ...
doi:10.18352/lq.9948
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SHARED VALUE, CROWDSOURCING AND FIRM PERFORMANCE
2014
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
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More and more companies apply the wisdom of crowds to certain tasks and challenges, making the crowdsourcing a recognized mechanism for problem-solving. ...
Social Media (SM) and ICT enable the interactionwith the market that allows spreading development burden amongst companies and individuals. ...
The evolution of innovation in fact, due to new technologies, modified the relations from the closed to collaborative, open, and so it have dramatically changed the dynamic nature of the global market ...
doi:10.24297/ijmit.v10i4.631
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Co-constructing controversy: content analysis of collaborative knowledge negotiation in online communities
2016
Information, Communication & Society
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As the general public participates in such knowledge collaboration, understanding the processes through which they contribute content and roles that they play is imperative. ...
This paper builds on previous studies of social construction of knowledge online and investigates how contributors in online communities collaboratively share and construct controversial scientific knowledge ...
The interplay between the roles and contents that we identified can be analyzed. We can also expand the study to include different controversial topics in science. ...
doi:10.1080/1369118x.2016.1142595
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Mining latent relations in peer-production environments: a case study with Wikipedia article similarity and controversy
2011
Social Network Analysis and Mining
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In the context of Wikipedia specific research, our case study helps better differentiate the degree of impact of some of the possible causes of controversies. ...
Specifically, we use expert-based similarity as well as other standard similarity measures, to discern the influence and impact of several factors which are hypothysed to generate controversies in Wikipedia ...
Acknowledgements The work is funded by A-STAR grant no: 072 134 0055. ...
doi:10.1007/s13278-011-0037-5
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Analyzing Design Tradeoffs in Large-Scale Socio-technical Systems through Simulation of Dynamic Collaboration Patterns
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2012
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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and (iv) evaluation of the overall approach. ...
Existing software engineering tools and techniques support the system engineer in designing and assessing the technical infrastructure. ...
Future work will focus on exploring these patterns in more detail and applying the simulation framework for evaluating dynamic switching between strategies (e.g., F IF O ⇔ LIF O) at runtime and evaluate ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33606-5_22
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The Virtuous Circle of Wikipedia
2015
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing - CSCW '15
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We show that while the wisdom of crowds is well pulled in some categories, more editors per article can also create disvalue. ...
In open collaboration, knowledge is created and iteratively improved by a multitude of editors who freely choose what should be their contributions. ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under award CCF-0424422 (TRUST). ...
doi:10.1145/2675133.2675286
dblp:conf/cscw/KleinMC15
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When in doubt ask the crowd : leveraging collective intelligence for improving event detection and machine learning
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2019
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However, in collaborative environments such as Wikipedia, information and structures are highly dynamic over time. ...
Thesis Structure In the first part of the thesis we exploit the wisdom of the crowds and its manifestation on the collaborative platform Wikipedia, by leveraging the collaboration patterns that make Wikipedia ...
doi:10.15488/8457
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