Viable wikis: Struggle for life in the wikisphere

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 119-124

  Roth, Camille ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaborative work; Online communities; User incentives; Viability; Wikipedia; Wikis; Wikisphere

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DATA REDUCTION; ONLINE SEARCHING; WEBSITES;

USER INCENTIVES; WIKIPEDIA; WIKIS; WIKISPHERE;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 41149114659     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1296951.1296964     Document Type: Conference Paper

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