Lifting the veil: Improving accountability and social transparency in Wikipedia with WikiDashboard

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1037-1040

  Suh, Bongwon ^a   Chi, Ed H ^a   Kittur, Aniket ^a   Pendleton, Bryan A ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountability; Collaboration; Social transparency; Trust; Visualization; Wiki; Wikidashboard; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION;

ACCOUNTABILITY; COLLABORATION; SOCIAL TRANSPARENCY; TRUST; WIKI; WIKIDASHBOARD; WIKIPEDIA;

TRANSPARENCY;

EID: 57649166937     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357214     Document Type: Conference Paper

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