Cooperation and quality in Wikipedia

Proceedings of the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 157-164

  Wilkinson, Dennis M ^a   Huberman, Bernardo A ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA; STOCHASTIC MECHANISM; WIKIPEDIA;

INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEMS; WEBSITES;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 41149087769     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1296951.1296968     Document Type: Conference Paper

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