Core and Periphery in Free/Libre and Open Source Software Team Communications

Crowston, Kevin; Wei, Kangning; Li, Qing; Howison, James

doi:10.1109/hicss.2006.101

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“…As such, the community has a core-periphery structure common to several other OPCs, e.g. Free Open Source Software projects [9], or Wikipedia [7]. A similar distribution can be found also in the revision scope.…”

Section: Wikidata As a Communitymentioning

confidence: 95%

Wikidatians are Born: Paths to Full Participation in a Collaborative Structured Knowledge Base

Piscopo¹,

Phethean²,

Simperl³

2017

Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2017)

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We investigated how participation evolves in Wikidata as its editors become established members of the community. Originally conceived to support Wikipedia, Wikidata is a collaborative structured knowledge base, created and maintained by a large number of volunteers, whose data can be freely reused in other contexts. Just like in any other online social environment, understanding its contributors' pathways to full participation helps Wikidata improve user experience and retention. We analysed how participation changes in time under the frameworks of legitimate peripheral participation and activity theory. We found out that as they engage more with the project, "Wikidatians" acquire a higher sense of responsibility for their work, interact more with the community, take on more advanced tasks, and use a wider range of tools. Previous activity in Wikipedia has varied effects. As Wikidata is a young community, future work should focus on volunteers with little or no experience in similar projects and specify means to improve critical aspects such as engagement and data quality.

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Section: Wikidata As a Communitymentioning

confidence: 95%

Wikidatians are Born: Paths to Full Participation in a Collaborative Structured Knowledge Base

Piscopo¹,

Phethean²,

Simperl³

2017

Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2017)

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“…Since firm-paid assignees also include the core members of the projects, they are assumed to have more knowledge and experience in developing the OSS product than peripheral members do [12]. Therefore the time should be different for the group of volunteer assignee and the group of firm-paid assignees.…”

Section: H1: the Stakeholder's Centrality Degree Of A Firm-paid Assigmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We observe that many firm-paid assignees are also main contributors in developing the OSS product. While these core project members have significant contributions in developing the software [12], we would like to know whether they significantly contribute to resolving issues in the software evolution phase. Therefore, our first hypothesis is that:…”

Section: Research Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of Stakeholder Type and Collaboration on Issue Resolution Time in OSS Projects

Duc¹,

Cruzes²,

Ayala³

et al. 2011

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. Born as a movement of collective contribution of volunteer developers, Open source software (OSS) attracts an increasing involvement of commercial firms. Many OSS projects are composed of a mix group of firmpaid and volunteer developers, with different motivation, collaboration practices and working styles. As OSS is collaborative work in nature, it is important to know whether these differences have an impact on project outcomes. In this paper, we empirically investigate the firm-paid participation in resolving OSS evolution issues, the stakeholder collaboration and its impact on OSS issue resolution time. The results suggest that though a firm-paid developer resolves much more issues than a volunteer developer does, there is no difference in issue resolution time between firm-paid and volunteer developers. Besides, the more important factor that influences the issue resolution time comes from the collaboration among stakeholders rather than from measures of individual characteristics.

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“…Some studies on epistemic communities, especially in the case of open source software, stressed the importance of the core members [17] [13] [18]. In this context, they define the coreperiphery structure in terms of members' activity in the project, where a small group of highly active core members are responsible for most of the contribution to the project and a large and loosely coupled group of periphery members support the others.…”

Section: Core Member Constitutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Online Communities, Teams Characteristics, and Knowledge Quality

Rezgui¹,

Jullien²

2016

Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World

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Abstract. Understanding the characteristics of a "good" team and members diversity affects the outcomes group in a question of growing importance for the organizations, for their competitive advantage relies more and more on innovation, produced by virtual cooperation on knowledge production. In this study, we propose a method to forecast the future quality of an online knowledge production community or online epistemic community by studying the composition of the group who initiated them (the "core members" of, in this case, an article). First, we set a team building period which is defined as the period of 120 days after article creation in order to construct this "core members" group. Second, we explore the effects on article quality of both group and member diversity. Core members' characteristics are learned from their previous behavior. The analysis is based on the French Wikipedia project. Our results show that the most important attributes of initial core member to have a high quality article are average reputation, diversity's contribution, participation, and group size. We also find no significant effects of experience diversity and reputation during the team building period.

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Core and Periphery in Free/Libre and Open Source Software Team Communications

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Cited by 146 publications

References 13 publications

Wikidatians are Born: Paths to Full Participation in a Collaborative Structured Knowledge Base

Wikidatians are Born: Paths to Full Participation in a Collaborative Structured Knowledge Base

Impact of Stakeholder Type and Collaboration on Issue Resolution Time in OSS Projects

Online Communities, Teams Characteristics, and Knowledge Quality

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