Bootstrapping wikis: Developing critical mass in a fledgling community by seeding content

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 261-264

  Solomon, Jacob ^a   Wash, Rick ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bootstrapping; critical mass; online contribution

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; CRITICAL MASS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE CONTRIBUTION;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84858197857     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2145204.2145247     Document Type: Conference Paper

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