Reputation and reliability in collective goods: The case of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia

D Anthony, SW Smith, T Williamson - Rationality and society, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
An important organizational innovation enabled by the revolution in information
technologies isopen source'production which converts private commodities into essentially …

The quality of open source production: Zealots and good Samaritans in the case of Wikipedia

D Anthony, SW Smith, T Williamson - 2007 - digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu
New forms of production based in electronic technology, such as open-source and open-
content production, convert private commodities (typically software) into essentially public …

[PDF][PDF] Explaining quality in internet collective goods: Zealots and good samaritans in the case of wikipedia

D Anthony, SW Smith, T Williamson - Hanover: Dartmouth College, 2005 - academia.edu
One important innovation in information and communication technology developed over the
past decade was organizational rather than merely technological. Open source production is …

[PDF][PDF] Why do people write for Wikipedia? Incentives to contribute to open–content publishing

A Forte, A Bruckman - Proc. of GROUP, 2005 - Citeseer
When people learn that we have spoken to individuals who spend up to 30 hours a week
volunteering their time to research and write for an open-content encyclopedia, we often …

[PDF][PDF] Power of the few vs. wisdom of the crowd: Wikipedia and the rise of the bourgeoisie

A Kittur, E Chi, BA Pendleton, B Suh… - World wide web, 2007 - researchgate.net
Wikipedia has been a resounding success story as a collaborative system with a low cost of
online participation. However, it is an open question whether the success of Wikipedia …

The rise and decline of an open collaboration system: How Wikipedia's reaction to popularity is causing its decline

A Halfaker, RS Geiger, JT Morgan… - American behavioral …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Open collaboration systems, such as Wikipedia, need to maintain a pool of volunteer
contributors to remain relevant. Wikipedia was created through a tremendous number of …

Wisdom of the crowd or technicity of content? Wikipedia as a sociotechnical system

S Niederer, J Van Dijck - New media & society, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Wikipedia is often considered as an example of 'collaborative knowledge'. Researchers
have contested the value of Wikipedia content on various accounts. Some have disputed the …

Transparency and social responsibility issues for Wikipedia

A Santana, DJ Wood - Ethics and information technology, 2009 - Springer
Wikipedia is known as a free online encyclopedia. Wikipedia uses largely transparent
writing and editing processes, which aim at providing the user with quality information …

Getting to the source: where does Wikipedia get its information from?

H Ford, S Sen, DR Musicant, N Miller - Proceedings of the 9th …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
We ask what kinds of sources Wikipedians value most and compare Wikipedia's stated
policy on sources to what we observe in practice. We find that primary data sources …

Voluntary engagement in an open web-based encyclopedia: Wikipedians and why they do it

J Schroer, G Hertel - Media Psychology, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is a highly successful “open content” project, written and
maintained completely by volunteers. Little is known, however, about the motivation of these …