Background: Collaborative writing applications (eg, wikis and Google Documents) hold the
potential to improve the use of evidence in both public health and health care. The rapid rise …

The success of Wikipedia demonstrates that self-organizing production communities can
produce high-quality information-based products. Research on Wikipedia has proceeded …

Wikipedia has become one of the ten most visited sites on the Web, and the world's leading
source of Web reference information. Its rapid success has inspired hundreds of scholars …

The quality of Wikipedia articles is debatable. On the one hand, existing research indicates
that not only are people willing to contribute articles but the quality of these articles is close …

Increasingly, new forms of organizing for knowledge production are built around self-
organizing coproduction community models with ambiguous role definitions. Current …

As one of the most commonly read online sources of medical information, Wikipedia is an
influential public health platform. Its medical content, community, collaborations and …

Originally designed as a tool to alleviate bottlenecks associated with knowledge
management, the suitability of wikis for corporate settings has been questioned given the …

An understanding of participation dynamics within online production communities requires
an examination of the roles assumed by participants. Recent studies have established that …

Browsing for information is a significant part of most research activity, but many online
collections hamper browsing with interfaces that are variants on a search box. Research …

Social media in general and wikis in particular offer unique opportunities for knowledge
management. Despite widely publicised successes in public settings, wikis in businesses …