Don't bite the newbies: How reverts affect the quantity and quality of Wikipedia work

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 163-172

  Halfaker, Aaron ^a   Kittur, Aniket ^b   Riedl, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

experience; motivation; productivity; quality; revert; Wikipedia; WikiWork

Indexed keywords

EXPERIENCE; REVERT; WIKIPEDIA; WIKIWORK;

EID: 80054779721     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2038558.2038585     Document Type: Conference Paper

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