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There is No Deadline - Time Evolution of Wikipedia Discussions
[article]
2012
arXiv
pre-print
In this study we analyse the evolution of these discussions to unveil patterns of collective participation along the temporal dimension, and to shed light on the process of content creation on different ...
Wikipedia articles are by definition never finished: at any moment their content can be edited, or discussed in the associated talk pages. ...
Acknowledgements This work was partially supported by the Spanish Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology under the CENIT program, project CEN-20101037, "Social Media". ...
arXiv:1204.3453v2
fatcat:m3upwk3ffje5bdduvyky2s7muu
There is no deadline
2012
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration - WikiSym '12
In this study we analyse the evolution of these discussions to unveil patterns of collective participation along the temporal dimension, and to shed light on the process of content creation on different ...
Wikipedia articles are by definition never finished: at any moment their content can be edited, or discussed in the associated talk pages. ...
Acknowledgements This work was partially supported by the Spanish Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology under the CENIT program, project CEN-20101037, "Social Media". ...
doi:10.1145/2462932.2462941
dblp:conf/wikis/KaltenbrunnerL12
fatcat:ow325q2j6zbd5ewpuj3cah762i
Wikis and Wikipedia as a teaching tool: Five years later
2012
First Monday
, highlight common problems and their solutions, and describe a number of new tools enhancing the "teaching with Wikipedia" experience. 2 The following paper is divided into two parts. ...
The following paper is divided into two parts. ...
When will the students work on Wikipedia? The importance of deadlines. Learning how to edit a wiki takes a little time. ...
doi:10.5210/fm.v0i0.3583
fatcat:elib2rcgh5e4bmv2cvpkxo2dpa
Motivation and Its Mechanisms in Virtual Communities
[chapter]
2011
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
For the discussion of motivation mechanisms, we reviewed the literature and made qualitative interviews with members of the Wikipedia community. ...
Participation is a key aspect of success of virtual communities. Participation is dependent on the members' motivation that is driven by individual and environmental characteristics. ...
To the Wikipedia members that participated in the interviews. To Tony Ahn for the availability to contribute with explanations about Wikipedia. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23801-7_5
fatcat:cmqq7b2fzvaw3ejnbeleelncmi
Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia
2010
PLoS Computational Biology
Acknowledgments We thank Philip Bourne for insightful comments and gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the many Wikipedians who collectively developed the policies and guidelines that inspired ...
If you begin to find a particular interaction stressful, simply log off and come back another time. Unlike most scientific enterprises, Wikipedia has no deadlines. ...
the Wikipedia articles on ''RNA'', ''Milk'', ''Cow'', and ''Evolution of mammals'' is not a good idea. ...
doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000941
pmid:20941386
pmcid:PMC2947980
fatcat:4yciabrm3vhv3hbmixwcfbhkbi
Taxpayer Search for Information: Implications for Rational Attention
2015
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
We find seasonal increases in information search around tax deadlines, suggesting that taxpayers seek information to comply with tax law. ...
For a discussion of the effect of omnibus tax legislation, see Hoopes (2014) . 28 There is modestly elevated information search via Google, Wikipedia or both, on a few dates that we do not include in ...
Figure 1 1 plots the evolution of three measures of information search on capital gains taxes over time. ...
doi:10.1257/pol.20140050
fatcat:jlrohvkqjjacvmj6nay4jxnlo4
Taxpayer Search for Information: Implications for Rational Attention
2013
Social Science Research Network
We find seasonal increases in information search around tax deadlines, suggesting that taxpayers seek information to comply with tax law. ...
For a discussion of the effect of omnibus tax legislation, see Hoopes (2014) . 28 There is modestly elevated information search via Google, Wikipedia or both, on a few dates that we do not include in ...
Figure 1 1 plots the evolution of three measures of information search on capital gains taxes over time. ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2318581
fatcat:y4qtwyguazcjlljhfksso6xlya
Motivations of contributors to Wikipedia
2006
Computers & society
A comprehensive analysis of the motivations of Wikipedians is conducted using the iterative methodology developed by Batya Friedman and Peter Kahn in Value Sensitive Design and Information Systems 1 and ...
During the empirical phase, motivations of the contributors to Wikipedia are identified through analysis of data from two published surveys and a pilot survey conducted at New York University. ...
There is no authority figure to control the quantity, quality or frequency of contributions, and Wikipedians are never "fired", demoted or even reprimanded for a lack of work. ...
doi:10.1145/1215942.1215943
fatcat:m2lqgp727nhqpklteoabrceh7u
Embracing Wikipedia as a teaching and learning tool benefits health professional schools and the populations they serve
2017
Innovations in Global Health Professions Education
Here I describe the evolution of that course between 2013 – 2017, and highlight ongoing partnerships with Wikiproject Medicine, Translators Without Borders, and Wikipedia Zero. ...
fulfillment of Wikipedia's audacious goal. ...
As evidenced by the discussions on these talk pages, there remain significant gaps and inconsistencies in the healthrelated content of Wikipedia. ...
doi:10.20421/ighpe2017.01
fatcat:5t2mcq55lrfbjdyl7fp34d5biu
Information quality work organization in wikipedia
2008
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
What makes Wikipedia special as a resource is that the quality discussions and processes are strongly connected to the data itself. ...
A case study with a content analysis of Wikipedia discussion pages and other process artifacts was used. ...
The product creation and delivery environments for Wikipedia are the same, and there is no time lag between the creation of the product and its delivery to the user. ...
doi:10.1002/asi.20813
fatcat:gf5fu45f4fhwfmlk5ikg5qch6m
Coordinating tasks on the commons
2009
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI 09
How is work created, assigned, and completed on large-scale, crowd-powered systems like Wikipedia? And what design principles might enable these federated online systems to be more effective? ...
This paper reports on a qualitative study of work and task practices on Wikipedia. ...
Acknowledgements We thank Sep Kamvar for invaluable project advice and the Wikipedians who graciously gave us their time and ideas. ...
doi:10.1145/1518701.1518927
dblp:conf/chi/KriegerSK09
fatcat:effebusg3zal5o2w63febhex6u
Collaboration, editing, transparency: challenges and possibilities of a "wikification" of journalism
2009
Brazilian Journalism Research
"Wiki-journalism" practices on the Wikinews and Wikipedia sites and initiatives originating with print publications are presented and discussed, and based on them we distinguish two models, which differ ...
This article discusses the possibilities and challenges of the incorporation of wikis in journalistic editorial offices, especially in the processes involving the drafting and editing of texts. ...
there "the coverage of G1 in real time". ...
doi:10.25200/bjr.v5n1.2009.179
fatcat:henq7qtgtfcf5gvw3ghoo2e2hu
Using Wikipedia to teach scholarly peer review
2021
Journal of Information Literacy
Inspired by the tenets of open pedagogy, the purpose of this project is to use Wikipedia as a way for students to learn about the scholarly peer review process while also producing material that can be ...
The paper closes by discussing the importance of this project, arguing that it fills a known scholarly need, actively produces knowledge, furthers the aims of the open access movement, and furthers scientific ...
Christopher Beard and the students of BIOL 524 for helping to make this project report a reality. This project was in part funded by the David B. ...
doi:10.11645/15.2.2913
fatcat:tmim4ya47jhevfimn7r2xtfcvu
Collectivism vs. Individualism in a Wiki World: Librarians Respond to Jaron Lanier's Essay "Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism"
2007
Serials review
experts in whatever field when other deadlines and more prestigious demands on their time and expertise call. ...
If a change or correction has been made in Britannica Online, there is no indication of what has been refined. ...
doi:10.1016/j.serrev.2006.11.002
fatcat:kcipvqcb45cjpmo7wvrbbkddd4
Wikipedia and undergraduate research trajectories
2015
New Library World
I feel as though most of the reference content is already on the wiki article so there would be no reason for me to further look into that reference. " ■ "Many of the sites that Wikipedia [uses] may very ...
The rubric was preferred choice for this study because it is an established and calibrated educational tool and there is a precedence of its use in the context of Wikipedia source evaluation. ...
doi:10.1108/nlw-07-2014-0086
fatcat:rpmibus2dfh2nb2iakvvnd4jwe
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