Economic Downturn and Volunteering: Does a Crisis Aect Content Generation on Wikipedia?
Authors | Michael Kummer Olga Slivko Michael Zhang |
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Publication date | 2015 |
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Economic Downturn and Volunteering: Does a Crisis Aect Content Generation on Wikipedia? - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2015, written by Michael Kummer, Olga Slivko and Michael Zhang.
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In this paper, authors address the impact of surging unemployment on online public good provision. Specically, authors ask how drastically increased unemployment aects voluntary contributions of content to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Authors put together a monthly country-level data set, which combines country specic economic outcomes with data on contributions to the online encyclopedia. As a source of exogenous variation in the economic state authors use the various economic crises in European countries following the nancial crisis in the US, which started in September 2008. Authors nd that economic downturn is associated with more viewership, which channels higher participation of volunteers in Wikipedia expressed in editing activity and content growth. Authors provide evidence for increased information search online or online learning as a potential channel of the change in public goods provision, which is a potentially important side eect of economic
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Kummer, Michael; Slivko, Olga; Zhang, Michael. (2015). "[[Economic Downturn and Volunteering: Does a Crisis Aect Content Generation on Wikipedia?]]".
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Kummer, Michael; Slivko, Olga; Zhang, Michael. (2015). "<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Economic_Downturn_and_Volunteering:_Does_a_Crisis_Aect_Content_Generation_on_Wikipedia?">Economic Downturn and Volunteering: Does a Crisis Aect Content Generation on Wikipedia?</a>".
