Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowds in Wikipedia: Quality Through Coordination
Authors | Aniket Kittur Robert E. Kraut |
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Publication date | 2008 |
ISBN | 978-160558007-4 |
DOI | 10.1145/1460563.1460572 |
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Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowds in Wikipedia: Quality Through Coordination - scientific work about Wikipedia quality published in 2008, written by Aniket Kittur and Robert E. Kraut.
Overview
Wikipedia's success is often attributed to the large numbers of contributors who improve the accuracy, completeness and clarity of articles while reducing bias. However, because of the coordination needed to write an article collaboratively, adding contributors is costly. Authors examined how the number of editors in Wikipedia and the coordination methods they use affect article quality. Authors distinguish between explicit coordination, in which editors plan the article through communication, and implicit coordination, in which a subset of editors structure the work by doing the majority of it. Adding more editors to an article improved article quality only when they used appropriate coordination techniques and was harmful when they did not. Implicit coordination through concentrating the work was more helpful when many editors contributed, but explicit coordination through communication was not. Both types of coordination improved quality more when an article was in a formative stage. These results demonstrate the critical importance of coordination in effectively harnessing the "wisdom of the crowd" in online production environments.
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Wikipedia Quality
Kittur, Aniket; Kraut, Robert E.. (2008). "[[Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowds in Wikipedia: Quality Through Coordination]]". Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2008, pp. 37-46. ISBN: 978-160558007-4. DOI: 10.1145/1460563.1460572.
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Kittur, Aniket; Kraut, Robert E.. (2008). "<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Harnessing_the_Wisdom_of_Crowds_in_Wikipedia:_Quality_Through_Coordination">Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowds in Wikipedia: Quality Through Coordination</a>". Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2008, pp. 37-46. ISBN: 978-160558007-4. DOI: 10.1145/1460563.1460572.
