Who does what: Collaboration patterns in the wikipedia and their impact on article quality

ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Liu, Jun ^a   Ram, Sudha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Article quality; Collaboration pattern; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION PATTERNS; DESIGNING TOOLS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; LOW QUALITIES; WIKIPEDIA;

HARDWARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84860580992     PISSN: 2158656X     EISSN: 21586578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1985347.1985352     Document Type: Article

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