Online Motivational Factors: Incentives for Participation and Contribution in Wikipedia

Rafaeli, Sheizaf; Ariel, Yaron

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511813740.012

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“…A number of participants explained that sharing content on a wiki suggests that this content is subject to changes since their understanding of the concept of a wiki implies that content is open and thus anyone can make edits and changes (cf. [2,30,24]. This kind of what we call open or network structure is driven by the open interactions that take place when people share content with each on the wiki.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Openness is one of the most intriguing aspects of wikis. In principle, a wiki is open and allows its users to jointly create, edit, change, and delete content [24]. It also allows for knowledge shaping which is a purposeful activity to transform existing knowledge on the wiki into more useful knowledge through reorganizing, rewriting, and integrating content [30].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Not-So-Open Wikis: Structures of Collaboration At Work

Mansour

2012

From Research to Practice in the Design of Cooperative Systems: Results and Open Challenges

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Not-So-Open Wikis: Structures of Collaboration At Work

Mansour

2012

From Research to Practice in the Design of Cooperative Systems: Results and Open Challenges

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“…Previous literature found amateurism (participation for leisure and hobbies) and altruism (participation for contribution to society) as major motivators for participation in collective intelligence [20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. These two mechanisms for motivation are not necessarily exclusive but, rather, oftentimes appear simultaneously.…”

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confidence: 98%

Government-Driven Participation and Collective Intelligence: A Case of the Government 3.0 Initiative in Korea

Nam¹

2016

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Abstract:The Park Geun-hye Administration of Korea (2013Korea ( -2017 aims to increase the level of transparency and citizen trust in government through the Government 3.0 initiative. This new initiative for public sector innovation encourages citizen-government collaboration and collective intelligence, thereby improving the quality of policy-making and implementation and solving public problems in a new way. However, the national initiative that identifies collective intelligence and citizen-government collaboration alike fails to understand what the wisdom of crowds genuinely means. Collective intelligence is not a magic bullet to solve public problems, which are called "wicked problems". Collective deliberation over public issues often brings pain and patience, rather than fun and joy. It is not so easy that the public finds the best solution for soothing public problems through collective deliberation. The Government 3.0 initiative does not pay much attention to difficulties in gathering scattered wisdom, but rather highlights uncertain opportunities created by collective interactions and communications. This study deeply discusses the weaknesses in the logic of, and approach to, collective intelligence underlying the Government 3.0 initiative in Korea and the overall influence of the national initiative on participatory democracy.

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“…An active crowd of participants is crucial for such systems, raising the question of providing tailored incentives that will promote user motivation [18,19]. Traditional approaches focus on economic approaches including tangible incentives such as monetary prizes [4,11,18,19], algorithmic approaches such as improving software [20], encouraging social-psychological perspectives on the notion of gaining reputation [21], or expression of open-source ideology [22]. A recent direction is offering the enjoyable qualities of gameplay in nongame systems, coined as gamification [23].…”

Section: Gamification and Crowdsmentioning

confidence: 99%