Determinants of wikipedia quality: The roles of global and local contribution inequality

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 233-236

  Arazy, Ofer ^a   Nov, Oded ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contribution inequality; Coordination; Global inequality; Information quality; Local inequality; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

HIGH QUALITY; INDIRECT EFFECTS; INFORMATION QUALITY; SHEDDING LIGHT; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; WIKIPEDIA;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 77950879485     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1718918.1718963     Document Type: Conference Paper

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