Motivations of contributors to Wikipedia

Kuznetsov, Stacey

doi:10.1145/1215942.1215943

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“…Nov (2007) found that the top three motivations of Wikipedians were: 9 fun (enjoying oneself), ideology ("information should be free") and values (helping others, sharing knowledge). As already observed by Kuznetsov (2006) there is a significant overlap between…”

Section: Wikipedians' Values As a Factor In The January 18 Protests: supporting

confidence: 54%

The day Wikipedia stood still: Wikipedia’s editors’ participation in the 2012 anti-SOPA protests as a case study of online organization empowering international and national political opportunity structures

Konieczny

2014

Current Sociology

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1 international social movement organization, whose 24 hour-long blackout of its popular website was a major factor in the success of the anti-SOPA protests. Wikipedia's blackout was an expression of an international political opportunity structure in the form of worldwide awareness and protests, which in turn enabled a national political opportunity structure by informing and mobilizing American citizens.

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Section: Wikipedians' Values As a Factor In The January 18 Protests: supporting

confidence: 54%

The day Wikipedia stood still: Wikipedia’s editors’ participation in the 2012 anti-SOPA protests as a case study of online organization empowering international and national political opportunity structures

Konieczny

2014

Current Sociology

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“…[9] People who use Wikipedia very often as readers will start to correct errors and eventually become authors. [10] A lot of time has been spent on measuring the quality of Wikipedia articles in a quantitative manner. In the meantime, Wikipedia articles are increasingly being used as references in other contexts.…”

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Wikipedia vs. Academia: An Investigation into the Role of the Internet in Education, with a Special Focus on Wikipedia

Staub¹,

Hodel²

2016

ujer

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This paper addresses the issue in a rather hands-on and down-to-earth approach that will allow us to draw some interesting conclusions about the role of open Internet knowledge (such as that which can be found on Wikipedia) for learning and knowledge creation. We will be placing a special focus on academia: for instance, how should universities of applied sciences define "competency based learning" at a time when so many answers can be readily found on Wikipedia? Here the paper does not strive to come to generalized conclusions, but it does strive to find some modest, surprising and -last but not least -also practical answers. The current paper is based on library research, an online analysis of the current Wikipedia website, and interviews with Swiss Wikipedia activists.

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“…Here we see that editors and authors tend to come and go very quickly [4,12] and, as articles mature, it might be more valuable to have a larger set of contributors or maintainers [11]. Yet Wikipedia differs in that the act of maintenance is really about just that-maintenance.…”

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The role of community and groupware in geocache creation and maintenance

Neustaedter

Tang

Tejinder

2010

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Applications that provide location-based experiences are an increasingly viable design space given the proliferation of GPS-enabled mobile devices. However, these applications are in their infancy, and we do not yet know what design factors will contribute to their success. For this reason, we have studied the well-established location-based experience of geocaching. We report on the results of a survey of geocachers along with observations from our own in-depth geocaching activities. Our findings illustrate that geocaching permits users to create a range of experiences for others within a permeable yet restricted culture of norms. Once created, geocaches are maintained by the community of geocachers through a well-designed groupware system. Here maintenance acts can be performed "in the small," given their lightweight and well-defined nature, and become less about maintenance and more about personal participation. These findings provide insight into how community and groupware can be leveraged to support applications for location-based experiences.

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Motivations of contributors to Wikipedia

Cited by 147 publications

References 2 publications

The day Wikipedia stood still: Wikipedia’s editors’ participation in the 2012 anti-SOPA protests as a case study of online organization empowering international and national political opportunity structures

The day Wikipedia stood still: Wikipedia’s editors’ participation in the 2012 anti-SOPA protests as a case study of online organization empowering international and national political opportunity structures

Wikipedia vs. Academia: An Investigation into the Role of the Internet in Education, with a Special Focus on Wikipedia

The role of community and groupware in geocache creation and maintenance

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