User Engagement on Wikipedia, a Review of Studies of Readers and Editors

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User Engagement on Wikipedia, a Review of Studies of Readers and Editors - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2015, written by Marc Miquel-Ribé.

Overview

Is it an encyclopedia or a social network? Without considering both aspects it would not be possible to understand how a worldwide army of editors created the largest online knowledge repository. Wikipedia has a consistent set of rules and it responds to many of the User Engagement Framework attributes, and this is why it works. In this paper, authors identify these confirmed attributes as well as those presenting problems. Authors explain that although having a strong editor base Wikipedia is finding it challenging to maintain this base or increase its size. In order to understand this, scholars have analyzed Wikipedia using current metrics like user session and activity. Authors conclude there exist opportunities to analyze engagement in new aspects in order to understand its success, as well as to redesign mechanisms to improve the system and help the transition between reader and editor.

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