Studying the Role of Diversity in Open Collaboration Network: Experiments on Wikipedia

Baraniak, Katarzyna; Sydow, Marcin; Szejda, Jacek; Czerniawska, Dominika

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28361-6_8

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“…Differences in viewpoints and knowledge bases cause a "creative abrasion" among Wikipedia editors that can lead to improvement in article quality [1]. Moreover, the diversity in the subject pool of editors' competences predicts well whether an article would gain the Featured Article (FA) statusthat is, would be considered by the community as one of the best quality articles, worthy of a notice on the front page of the Wiki [4,30]. Yet, an even more important matter than diversity might be the way that those many little activities and tasks performed, coming from volunteers with different knowledge bases, get coordinated and combined into the final product.…”

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Quality in Peer Production Systems – Impact of Assortativity of Communication Networks on Group Efficacy

Rychwalska¹,

Talaga²,

Ziembowicz³

2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Many online peer production systems (e.g. Wikipedia or Open Source Software communities) strive to deliver high quality intellectual goods that could compare with commercial products. While quality is key to the communities' success -widespread adoption of their products -it is not clear what makes some succeed, while others provide subpar outcomes or fail entirely. Quality of Wikipedia articles has been previously related to the number of editors writing them or to the diversity of editors' competences. Here we tested the hypothesis that cohesiveness of private communication networks within collaborating groups increases the quality of their products. We analyzed communication within a sample of Wikiprojects on the English Wikipedia -groups of editors that coordinate their activities to improve articles related to a specific topic. We found that most Wikiprojects communicate in a highly hierarchical, disassortative way, but the successful ones break this trend and their communication networks are structured in a more egalitarian way.

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Quality in Peer Production Systems – Impact of Assortativity of Communication Networks on Group Efficacy

Rychwalska¹,

Talaga²,

Ziembowicz³

2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…This article is a substantial extension of a conference paper (Baraniak et al 2016) where the parts of the two first of the above contributions were preliminarily presented.…”

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Diversity of editors and teams versus quality of cooperative work: experiments on wikipedia

2016

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We study whether and how the diversity of editors and teams affects the quality of work in a virtual cooperative work environment on the Wikipedia example. We propose a measure of interests diversity of an editor and some measures of team diversity in terms of members' interests and experience. Statistical and machine learning methods are used to investigate the dependency between diversity and work quality. The presented experimental results confirm our hypothesis that interest diversity of a single editors and team diversity are positively related to the quality of their work. Interestingly, some of our experiments also indicate that diversity may be more important than such attributes as productivity of an editor or size or experience of the team. Our experimental results demonstrate that it is possible to predict work quality based on diversity which is an additional statistical signal that diversity is correlated with work quality.

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“…It indicates the differences in within-article contributions among the group of editors who worked on the same article (Ren and Yan, 2017). As historical editorial behaviors of editors in Wikipedia reflect their hobbies and unique knowledge, the contribution difference reflects group knowledge heterogeneity, suggested by Ren and Yan (2017), Sydow et al (2017) and Baraniak et al (2016). We used the coefficient of the variant of editorial contributions among members to measure group knowledge heterogeneity, and the data can be obtained directly from Wikipedia official website statistics.…”

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OKC-enabled online knowledge integration: role of group heterogeneity and group interaction process

Qiu

Zuo

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PurposeOnline knowledge integration has been an important concern of the online knowledge community as it can lead to various positive outcomes of online knowledge coproduction. This paper identifies online knowledge integration factors by considering group heterogeneity and group interaction process.Design/methodology/approachBased on the categorization-elaboration model (CEM) and interactive team cognition (ITC) theory, a research model that reflects the antecedent's factors and mediating factors of online knowledge integration was developed and empirically examined based on data collected from 2,339,836 data extracted from Wikipedia.FindingsGroup interaction process plays an essential mediator role in online knowledge integration. Group knowledge heterogeneity negatively influences online knowledge integration and group experience heterogeneity positively, and they both positively promote online knowledge integration through group interaction process with different paths.Research limitationsOur research concerns the OKC context in one setting (Wikipedia). We expect that the results will generalize to other OKC platforms.Practical implicationsThe findings of the study could assist the online knowledge community's organizers to understand the motivational mechanisms of online knowledge integration. Group interaction process could be regarded as the key role to promote group wisdom and maintain group independence.Social implicationsWe advance the understanding of the online knowledge integration and gain a richer understanding of the importance of group interaction independence for online knowledge integration based on the agreement of group wisdom. It suggested keeping group interaction independence is an important aspect for highly online knowledge integration among heterogeneity groups.Originality/valueThis study extends CEM and ITC theory to the domain of knowledge integration context and finds the mechanism between group heterogeneity and online knowledge integration by introducing the group interaction process.

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Studying the Role of Diversity in Open Collaboration Network: Experiments on Wikipedia

Cited by 6 publications

References 12 publications

Quality in Peer Production Systems – Impact of Assortativity of Communication Networks on Group Efficacy

Quality in Peer Production Systems – Impact of Assortativity of Communication Networks on Group Efficacy

Diversity of editors and teams versus quality of cooperative work: experiments on wikipedia

OKC-enabled online knowledge integration: role of group heterogeneity and group interaction process

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