Mentoring in Wikipedia: A clash of cultures

WikiSym 2011 Conference Proceedings - 7th Annual International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 173-182

  Musicant, David R ^a   Ren, Yuqing ^b   Johnson, James A ^c   Riedl, John ^c  

^a CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

mentoring; newcomer retention; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

MENTORING; MENTORING PROGRAMS; NEW MEMBERS; NEWCOMER RETENTION; OFFLINE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; WIKIPEDIA;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 80054779467     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2038558.2038586     Document Type: Conference Paper

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