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CSCW
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Readers are not free-riders: reading as a form of participation on wikipedia
The success of Wikipedia as a large-scale collaborative effort has spurred researchers to examine the motivations and behaviors of Wikipedia’s participants. However, this resear...
Judd Antin, Coye Cheshire
CSCW
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Eliciting and focusing geographic volunteer work
Open content communities such as wikis derive their value from the work done by users. However, a key challenge is to elicit work that is sufficient and focused where needed. We ...
Reid Priedhorsky, Mikhil Masli, Loren G. Terveen
CSCW
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
An empirical study of critical mass and online community survival
There is general consensus that critical mass at inception ensures the sustained success of online communities. However, no clear understanding of what constitutes such a 'cr...
Daphne R. Raban, Mihai Moldovan, Quentin Jones
CSCW
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
The work of sustaining order in wikipedia: the banning of a vandal
In this paper, we examine the social roles of software tools in the English-language Wikipedia, specifically focusing on autonomous editing programs and assisted editing tools. Th...
R. Stuart Geiger, David Ribes
CVPR
2010
IEEE
16 years 3 months ago
Building and Using a Semantivisual Image Hierarchy
A semantically meaningful image hierarchy can ease the human effort in organizing thousands and millions of pictures (e.g., personal albums), and help to improve performance of en...
Li-Jia Li, Chong Wang, Yongwhan Lim, David Blei, L...