Learning to trust the crowd: Some lessons from Wikipedia

Proceedings - 2008 International MCETECH Conference on e-Technologies, MCETECH 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 212-216

  Olleros, F Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL TASKS; DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE; OSS PROJECTS; WIKIPEDIA;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; OPEN SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; TECHNOLOGY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 50249102635     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MCETECH.2008.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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