Managing Complexity: Strategies for Group Awareness and Coordinated Action in Wikipedia

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Managing Complexity: Strategies for Group Awareness and Coordinated Action in Wikipedia
Authors
Michael Gilbert
Jonathan T. Morgan
David W. McDonald
Mark Zachry
Publication date
2013
DOI
10.1145/2491055.2491060
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Original

Managing Complexity: Strategies for Group Awareness and Coordinated Action in Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2013, written by Michael Gilbert, Jonathan T. Morgan, David W. McDonald and Mark Zachry.

Overview

In online groups, increasing explicit coordination can increase group cohesion and member productivity. On Wikipedia, groups called WikiProjects employ a variety of explicit coordination mechanisms to motivate and structure member contribution, with the goal of creating and improving articles related to particular topics. However, while explicit coordination works well for coordinating article-level actions, coordinating group tasks and tracking progress towards group goals that involve tracking hundreds or thousands of articles over time requires different coordination strategies. To lower the coordination cost of monitoring and task-routing, WikiProjects centralize coordination activity on WikiProject pages -- "micro-sites" that provide a centralized repository of project tools, tasks and targets, and discussion for explicit group coordination. These tools can facilitate shared awareness of member and non-member editing activity on articles that the project cares about. However, whether these tools are as effective at motivating members as explicit coordination, and whether they elicit the same kind of contributions, has not been studied. In this study, authors examine one such tool, Hot Articles, and compare its effect on the editing behavior of WikiProject members with a more common, explicit coordination mechanism: making edit requests on the project talk page.

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Gilbert, Michael; Morgan, Jonathan T.; McDonald, David W.; Zachry, Mark. (2013). "[[Managing Complexity: Strategies for Group Awareness and Coordinated Action in Wikipedia]]".DOI: 10.1145/2491055.2491060.

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Gilbert, Michael; Morgan, Jonathan T.; McDonald, David W.; Zachry, Mark. (2013). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Managing_Complexity:_Strategies_for_Group_Awareness_and_Coordinated_Action_in_Wikipedia">Managing Complexity: Strategies for Group Awareness and Coordinated Action in Wikipedia</a>&quot;.DOI: 10.1145/2491055.2491060.