The small worlds of wikipedia: Implications for growth, quality and sustainability of collaborative knowledge networks

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages 3545-3556

  Ingawale, Myshkin ^a   Dutta, Amitava ^b   Roy, Rahul ^a   Seetharaman, Priya ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CALCUTTA   (India)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative knowledge Networks; Network theory; Small worlds; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

ASSORTATIVE MIXING; COLLABORATIVE KNOWLEDGE; GROWTH DYNAMICS; HIGH QUALITY; INTERACTION NETWORKS; KNOWLEDGE CREATIONS; KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS; ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA; PATH LENGTH; POWER-LAW; SMALL WORLDS; STRUCTURAL HOLES; WIKIPEDIA;

CIRCUIT THEORY; COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84870321673     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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