Socialization tactics in wikipedia and their effects

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 107-116

  Choi, Boreum ^a   Alexander, Kira ^b   Kraut, Robert E ^a   Levine, John M ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Socialization; Wikipedia; WikiProject

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; NEW MEMBERS; OFFLINE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; WIKIPEDIA;

FEEDBACK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 77950913130     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1718918.1718940     Document Type: Conference Paper

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