Having had several experiences with Wikipedia entries and edits this week, I am curious if anyone is doing research on: the social structure and reward structure of Wikipedists -- item enterers, editing others, administrators, etc. (I don't know the structure well enough to know the nomenclature). Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________
I started to research the Wikipediests awhile back but did not pursue the topic as I was convinced by faculty that academic snobbery would never allow a paper to be published on this topic. It is a fascinating culture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_editor#Authorship_and_management_proc ess As usual with Wikipedia, the information has changed since last I looked. I recall a culture that included Fairies who corrected grammatical errors quietly in the background, Police (probably not the term used) who checked for copyright infringement, vandals (also probably not the term used) who changed pages and other colorful descriptors. The times they are a changing, Charlie Balch Doctoral Candidate, Instructional Technology LSU Professor of CIS Arizona Western College -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 2:24 PM To: aoir list Subject: [Air-l] wikipedia research? Having had several experiences with Wikipedia entries and edits this week, I am curious if anyone is doing research on: the social structure and reward structure of Wikipedists -- item enterers, editing others, administrators, etc. (I don't know the structure well enough to know the nomenclature). Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Charlie, Surely you don't mean that academic snobbery would actually defeat a path of research. Somebody actually got thrown off this list for for suuggessing it there was such a phenomena. Sam Charlie Balch <charlie@balch.org> wrote: I started to research the Wikipediests awhile back but did not pursue the topic as I was convinced by faculty that academic snobbery would never allow a paper to be published on this topic. It is a fascinating culture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_editor#Authorship_and_management_proc ess As usual with Wikipedia, the information has changed since last I looked. I recall a culture that included Fairies who corrected grammatical errors quietly in the background, Police (probably not the term used) who checked for copyright infringement, vandals (also probably not the term used) who changed pages and other colorful descriptors. The times they are a changing, Charlie Balch Doctoral Candidate, Instructional Technology LSU Professor of CIS Arizona Western College -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 2:24 PM To: aoir list Subject: [Air-l] wikipedia research? Having had several experiences with Wikipedia entries and edits this week, I am curious if anyone is doing research on: the social structure and reward structure of Wikipedists -- item enterers, editing others, administrators, etc. (I don't know the structure well enough to know the nomenclature). Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
You might expand your scope to consider Web 2.0 content in general. And then consider the work of Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks. There was a panel on this at TPRC http://www.tprc.org/TPRC06/Program06.htm B --- Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
Having had several experiences with Wikipedia entries and edits this week, I am curious if anyone is doing research on:
the social structure and reward structure of Wikipedists -- item enterers, editing others, administrators, etc. (I don't know the structure well enough to know the nomenclature).
Barry Wellman
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Aaron Swartz is looking into what constitutes "the community" on Wikipedia through content analysis (challenging the fact that only 500 people edit the majority of Wikipedia). Andrea Forte (Georgia Tech) is doing a qualitative study of Wikipedia culture. Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg (IBM) have been building visualizations of Wikipedia's editing patterns. These are the key people that i know looking into Wikipedia from different angles. Andrea's probably your best bet for looking at motivation. That said, some very interesting bits are coming out of Aaron's work... namely that the kinds of edits made by anonymous folks are very different (and often content more detailed content) than those made from people with accounts who are frequent editors. (Jimmy - do you know of other studies going on?) danah On Oct 7, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Barry Wellman wrote:
Having had several experiences with Wikipedia entries and edits this week, I am curious if anyone is doing research on:
the social structure and reward structure of Wikipedists -- item enterers, editing others, administrators, etc. (I don't know the structure well enough to know the nomenclature).
Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________
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Recently we have started with a research project to investigate how and why people collaborate in wikipedia. Why people are engaged in the encyclopedia could not be explained by individual motivation. We hope to find some explanations in the commitment of the core group of the activists and in the picture of the different positions of all participants . We will conduct network analysis of different levels of Wikipeda, like the articles, the discussions around articles, different mailing lists etc. The project will last two years, but I am sure we can present some of our first results at the Sunbelt Conference in Corfu next year. Christian danah boyd schrieb:
Aaron Swartz is looking into what constitutes "the community" on Wikipedia through content analysis (challenging the fact that only 500 people edit the majority of Wikipedia).
Andrea Forte (Georgia Tech) is doing a qualitative study of Wikipedia culture.
Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg (IBM) have been building visualizations of Wikipedia's editing patterns.
These are the key people that i know looking into Wikipedia from different angles. Andrea's probably your best bet for looking at motivation. That said, some very interesting bits are coming out of Aaron's work... namely that the kinds of edits made by anonymous folks are very different (and often content more detailed content) than those made from people with accounts who are frequent editors.
(Jimmy - do you know of other studies going on?)
danah
On Oct 7, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Barry Wellman wrote:
Having had several experiences with Wikipedia entries and edits this week, I am curious if anyone is doing research on:
the social structure and reward structure of Wikipedists -- item enterers, editing others, administrators, etc. (I don't know the structure well enough to know the nomenclature).
Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________
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Hi All, I suspect the motivation structure for wikipedia will be very similar to open source. Denise Anthony from Dartmouth Sociology has a great paper comparing "quality" of entries from "good samaritans" vs "zealots." - showing that the contributions from anonymous participants tends to be quite higher than expected. https://www.dartmouth.edu/~socy/faculty/ anthony.html I also think that Guido Hertel from University of Würzburg Dept of Psychology has done some work on motivations in wikipedia - following on the footsteps of his study on motivations in the linux kernel community. http://wy2x05.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ao/research/ I think its a rich place for research on distributed innovation and collaboration. Best Karim On Oct 8, 2006, at 7:15 AM, Dr. Christian Stegbauer wrote:
Recently we have started with a research project to investigate how and why people collaborate in wikipedia. Why people are engaged in the encyclopedia could not be explained by individual motivation. We hope to find some explanations in the commitment of the core group of the activists and in the picture of the different positions of all participants . We will conduct network analysis of different levels of Wikipeda, like the articles, the discussions around articles, different mailing lists etc. The project will last two years, but I am sure we can present some of our first results at the Sunbelt Conference in Corfu next year.
Christian
danah boyd schrieb:
Aaron Swartz is looking into what constitutes "the community" on Wikipedia through content analysis (challenging the fact that only 500 people edit the majority of Wikipedia).
Andrea Forte (Georgia Tech) is doing a qualitative study of Wikipedia culture.
Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg (IBM) have been building visualizations of Wikipedia's editing patterns.
These are the key people that i know looking into Wikipedia from different angles. Andrea's probably your best bet for looking at motivation. That said, some very interesting bits are coming out of Aaron's work... namely that the kinds of edits made by anonymous folks are very different (and often content more detailed content) than those made from people with accounts who are frequent editors.
(Jimmy - do you know of other studies going on?)
danah
On Oct 7, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Barry Wellman wrote:
Having had several experiences with Wikipedia entries and edits this week, I am curious if anyone is doing research on:
the social structure and reward structure of Wikipedists -- item enterers, editing others, administrators, etc. (I don't know the structure well enough to know the nomenclature).
Barry Wellman
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I don't think I've seen anyone mention Joe Reagle's (NYU Culture and Communication) interesting work on leadeship and norms in Wikipedia - http://reagle.org/joseph/2006/05/wikipedia-results.html. Andy
Related here is David Niece's work on conspicuous contribution See, for example: http://numenor.lib.uic.edu/fmconference/viewabstract.php?id=18 Robert Karim R. Lakhani wrote:
Hi All,
I suspect the motivation structure for wikipedia will be very similar to open source.
Denise Anthony from Dartmouth Sociology has a great paper comparing "quality" of entries from "good samaritans" vs "zealots." - showing that the contributions from anonymous participants tends to be quite higher than expected. https://www.dartmouth.edu/~socy/faculty/ anthony.html
I also think that Guido Hertel from University of Würzburg Dept of Psychology has done some work on motivations in wikipedia - following on the footsteps of his study on motivations in the linux kernel community. http://wy2x05.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ao/research/
I think its a rich place for research on distributed innovation and collaboration.
Best
Karim
On Oct 8, 2006, at 7:15 AM, Dr. Christian Stegbauer wrote:
Recently we have started with a research project to investigate how and why people collaborate in wikipedia. Why people are engaged in the encyclopedia could not be explained by individual motivation. We hope to find some explanations in the commitment of the core group of the activists and in the picture of the different positions of all participants . We will conduct network analysis of different levels of Wikipeda, like the articles, the discussions around articles, different mailing lists etc. The project will last two years, but I am sure we can present some of our first results at the Sunbelt Conference in Corfu next year.
Christian
danah boyd schrieb:
Aaron Swartz is looking into what constitutes "the community" on Wikipedia through content analysis (challenging the fact that only 500 people edit the majority of Wikipedia).
Andrea Forte (Georgia Tech) is doing a qualitative study of Wikipedia culture.
Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg (IBM) have been building visualizations of Wikipedia's editing patterns.
These are the key people that i know looking into Wikipedia from different angles. Andrea's probably your best bet for looking at motivation. That said, some very interesting bits are coming out of Aaron's work... namely that the kinds of edits made by anonymous folks are very different (and often content more detailed content) than those made from people with accounts who are frequent editors.
(Jimmy - do you know of other studies going on?)
danah
On Oct 7, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Barry Wellman wrote:
Having had several experiences with Wikipedia entries and edits this week, I am curious if anyone is doing research on:
the social structure and reward structure of Wikipedists -- item enterers, editing others, administrators, etc. (I don't know the structure well enough to know the nomenclature).
Barry Wellman
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Barry Wellman asked:
Having had several experiences with Wikipedia entries and edits this week, I am curious if anyone is doing research on:
the social structure and reward structure of Wikipedists -- item enterers, editing others, administrators, etc. (I don't know the structure well enough to know the nomenclature).
I had a "let's edit and at least slightly improve some of these awful wikipedia entries" phase a few weeks back, and did some reading about the wikipedia in general as well. I haven't found "real research" but did find some very interesting popular articles about how the Wikipedia works. Here are a few links: Aaron Swatz: Who Writes Wikipedia? Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought. 2006-09-04 "Wales has repeatedly stated that 1-2% of wikipedia users have contributed 50-75%. However analyzing articles by letter count (not edits) shows most top contributors unregistered with under 25 edits. Wikipedia is written by outsiders, policed by insiders." http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The amorality of Web 2.0 Criticism of the Wikipedia - offers articles on Bill Gates and Jane Fonda as examples of how the "collaborative editing" can generate a articles that are simply lists of trivia rather than coherently flowing descriptions of a topic. Interesting. http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2005/10/the_amorality_o.php Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The law of the wiki ""Output quality declines as the number of contributors increases. Making matters worse, the best contributors will tend to become more and more alienated as they watch their work get mucked up by the knuckleheads, and they'll eventually stop contributing" http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2005/10/the_law_of_the.php The Atlantic Online | September 2006 | The Hive | Marshall Poe Detailed article about the history of the Wikipedia by Marshall Poe. "Can thousands of Wikipedians be wrong? How an attempt to build an online encyclopedia touched off history’s biggest experiment in collaborative knowledge" http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200609/wikipedia Oh, and here's one of my own blog posts that starts talking about Alan Liu's suggested student guidelines for use of the Wikipedia but ends up pointing out some of the problems with entries that I've been working on recently - related to some of the problems pointed out in the articles above. http://jilltxt.net/?p=1746 I'd love to know of more research on these issues. Jill ---- Jill Walker Associate Professor, Dept of Humanistic Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway http://jilltxt.net
This is probably the most comprehensive bibliography of Wikipedia research that I am aware of: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Research_Bibliography There are a wide variety of approaches represented on that list. As danah mentioned, I (along with Amy Bruckman and other students) have written a few papers that deal with social/motivation aspects of Wikiepedia, which can be found at: http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~aforte/pubs.html Andrea On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, Barry Wellman wrote:
Having had several experiences with Wikipedia entries and edits this week, I am curious if anyone is doing research on:
the social structure and reward structure of Wikipedists -- item enterers, editing others, administrators, etc. (I don't know the structure well enough to know the nomenclature).
Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________
Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________
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Barry Wellman wrote:
Having had several experiences with Wikipedia entries and edits this week, I am curious if anyone is doing research on:
the social structure and reward structure of Wikipedists -- item enterers, editing others, administrators, etc. (I don't know the structure well enough to know the nomenclature).
Additionally to what's already been posted here, you can find a list of on going research projects at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research and http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedistik (german version) Elisabeth Bauer
I don't know if you have heard of WikiMania conferences. Wikimania 2006 [1], the second annual international Wikimedia conference, was held August 4–6 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School campus. The list of presentations is online [2]. People in this list might be interested in the Track "Wiki Social Science" [3]. The meta page at wikimedia "Power structure" [4] is also very interesting, reporting the Wikipedia's (balanced?) mix of Anarchy, Precedent (tradition), Despotism, Democracy, Republic, Meritocracy, Plutocracy, Technocracy and more. If I might add some more links, a bit less about "social structure" and a bit more about "experts/non experts" issues, I suggest everybody to read "The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir" [5] [6] written by Larry Sanger, one of the moving forces behind the Nupedia project, from which Wikipedia originated. And also the comments of Clay Shirky about Sanger's new recent project, Citizendium, "Larry Sanger, Citizendium, and the Problem of Expertise" [7] and Sanger's response [8]. Well, I guess I included too many links but all of them are very intersting, IMHO. P. [1] http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page [2] http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:Index [3] http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Social_Science [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Power_structure [5] http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/18/164213 [6] http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/19/1746205&tid=95 [7] http://many.corante.com/archives/2006/09/18/larry_sanger_citizendium_and_the... [8] http://many.corante.com/archives/2006/09/20/larry_sanger_on_me_on_citizendiu... On 10/7/06, Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
Having had several experiences with Wikipedia entries and edits this week, I am curious if anyone is doing research on:
the social structure and reward structure of Wikipedists -- item enterers, editing others, administrators, etc. (I don't know the structure well enough to know the nomenclature).
Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________
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