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'''Dedication in Online Collaboration Redeems Experience: an Analysis on the Comparison Between Wikipedia and Scholarpedia''' - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2014, written by Zheng Zheng Ouyang.

== Overview ==
Evaluation and performance analysis of an online collaborative project are never easy tasks because the massive human involvement and other qualitative factors are hard to assess. To figure out the relationship between human related factors and quality of collaboration outcomes, authors propose an effective formal approach to estimate the human involvement in collaboration process and testify method on 100 articles extracted from Wikipedia and Scholar pedia, the qualities of whose historical contents have been evaluated manually by volunteers of specific background. Through comparison of the human involvement and the outcome quality in these two projects, authors find that the quality of collaborative products is positively related with the number, dedication and experience of collaboration participants, among which experience decides the necessary amount of human resources for a high quality, and increasing number or dedication of participants can also make up to the lack of experiences.