Wisdom of the crowds: Decentralized knowledge construction in Wikipedia

16th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, WITS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 79-84

  Arazy, Ofer ^a   Morgan, Wayne ^a   Patterson, Raymond A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE COMPARING; CONTENT QUALITIES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCTION; WIKIPEDIA; WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES; WISDOM OF CROWDS; WISDOM OF THE CROWDS;

EID: 79955585624     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1025624     Document Type: Conference Paper

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