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Assessing the value of cooperation in Wikipedia
Abstract Since its inception six years ago, the onlSince its inception six years ago, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has accumulated 6.40 million articles and 250 million edits, contributed in a predominantly undirected and haphazard fashion by 5.77 million unvetted volunteers. Despite the apparent lack of order, the 50 million edits by 4.8 million contributors to the 1.5 million articles in the English-language Wikipedia follow strong certain overall regularities. We show that the accretion of edits to an article is described by a simple stochastic mechanism, resulting in a heavy tail of highly visible articles with a large number of edits. We also demonstrate a crucial correlation between article quality and number of edits, which validates Wikipedia as a successful collaborative effort.edia as a successful collaborative effort.
Added by wikilit team Added on initial load  +
Collected data time dimension Cross-sectional  +
Comments Wikipedia article quality continues to increase, on average, as the number of collaborators and the number of edits increases which explains that topics of high interest or relevance are naturally brought to the forefront of visibility and quality.
Conclusion We have shown that although Wikipedia is aWe have shown that although Wikipedia is a complex system in which of millions of diverse editors collaborate in an unscheduled and virtually uncontrolled fashion, editing follows a very simple overall pattern. This pattern implies that a small number of articles, corresponding to topics of high relevance or visibility, accrete a disproportionately large number of edits. And, while large collaborations have been shown to fail in many contexts, Wikipedia article quality continues to increase, on average, as the number of collaborators and the number of edits increases. Thus, topics of high interest or relevance are naturally brought to the forefront of visibility and quality.o the forefront of visibility and quality.
Data source Wikipedia pages  +
Google scholar url http://scholar.google.com/scholar?ie=UTF-8&q=%22Assessing%2Bthe%2Bvalue%2Bof%2Bcooperation%2Bin%2BWikipedia%22  +
Has author Dennis M. Wilkinson + , Bernardo A. Huberman +
Has domain Information systems +
Has topic Featured articles + , Other collaboration topics +
Issue 4  +
Pages 13  +
Peer reviewed Yes  +
Publication type Journal article  +
Published in First Monday +
Research design Mathematical modeling  +
Research questions In this paper we first show that WikipediaIn this paper we first show that Wikipedia articles accrete edits according to a simple stochastic mechanism resulting in a population of disproportionally highlyedited articles. We then demonstrate a strong correlation between number of edits and article qualityetween number of edits and article quality
Revid 10,669  +
Theories Undetermined
Theory type Analysis  +
Title Assessing the value of cooperation in Wikipedia
Unit of analysis Article  +
Url http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0702140  +
Volume 12  +
Wikipedia coverage Main topic  +
Wikipedia data extraction Live Wikipedia  +
Wikipedia language English  +
Wikipedia page type Article  +
Year 2007  +
Creation dateThis property is a special property in this wiki. 15 March 2012 20:24:07  +
Categories Featured articles  + , Other collaboration topics  + , Information systems  + , Publications  +
Modification dateThis property is a special property in this wiki. 30 January 2014 20:20:45  +
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