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2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Assessing the quality of Wikipedia articles with lifecycle based metrics
The main feature of the free online-encyclopedia Wikipedia is the wiki-tool, which allows viewers to edit the articles directly in the web browser. As a weakness of this openness ...
Thomas Wöhner, Ralf Peters
WIKIS
2009
ACM
14 years 3 days ago
Evaluating the trustworthiness of Wikipedia articles through quality and credibility
Wikipedia has become a very popular destination for Web surfers seeking knowledge about a wide variety of subjects. While it contains many helpful articles with accurate informati...
Sai T. Moturu, Huan Liu
WIKIS
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
The singularity is not near: slowing growth of Wikipedia
Prior research on Wikipedia has characterized the growth in content and editors as being fundamentally exponential in nature, extrapolating current trends into the future. We show...
Bongwon Suh, Gregorio Convertino, Ed H. Chi, Peter...
WIKIS
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Herding the cats: the influence of groups in coordinating peer production
Peer production systems rely on users to self-select appropriate tasks and “scratch their personal itch”. However, many such systems require significant maintenance work, whic...
Aniket Kittur, Bryan A. Pendleton, Robert E. Kraut
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Pathfinder: an online collaboration environment for citizen scientists
For over a century, citizen scientists have volunteered to collect huge quantities of data for professional scientists to analyze. We designed Pathfinder, an online environment th...
Kurt Luther, Scott Counts, Kristin B. Stecher, Aar...