Is Wikipedia growing a longer tail?

GROUP'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 105-114

  Lam, Shyong K ^a   Riedl, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Evolution; Long tail; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

LONG TAIL; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; WIKIPEDIA;

EID: 70450277745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1531674.1531690     Document Type: Conference Paper

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