Cross-cultural analysis of the Wikipedia community

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2097-2108

  Hara, Noriko ^a   Shachaf, Pnina ^a   Hew, Khe Foon ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE; CULTURAL ANALYSIS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; WIKIPEDIA;

RESEARCH;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 77957200419     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21373     Document Type: Article

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