Tea & sympathy: Crafting positive new user experiences on wikipedia

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 839-848

  Morgan, Jonathan T ^a   Bouterse, Siko ^a   Stierch, Sarah ^a   Walls, Heather ^a  

^a Wikimedia Foundation Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Gender; New users; Socialization; User experience; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION; GENDER; NEW USERS; SOCIALIZATION; USER EXPERIENCE; WIKIPEDIA;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84874835891     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2441776.2441871     Document Type: Conference Paper

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