Volunteers in Wikipedia: Why the community matters

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 128-140

  Baytiyeh, Hoda ^a   Pfaffman, Jay ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Community of practice; Motivation; Online communities

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954250332     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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