A Preliminary Study on the Effects of Barnstars on Wikipedia Editing
Authors | Kwan Hui Lim Amitava Datta Michael J. Wise |
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Publication date | 2013 |
DOI | 10.1145/2491055.2491079 |
Links | Original |
A Preliminary Study on the Effects of Barnstars on Wikipedia Editing - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2013, written by Kwan Hui Lim, Amitava Datta and Michael J. Wise.
Overview
This paper presents a preliminary study into the awarding of barnstars among Wikipedia editors to better understand their motivations in contributing to Wikipedia articles. Authors crawled the talk pages of all active Wikipedia editors and retrieved 21,299 barnstars that were awarded among 14,074 editors. In particular, authors found that editors do not award and receive barnstars in equal (or similar) quantities. Also, editors were more active in editing articles before awarding or receiving barnstars.
