Making peripheral participation legitimate: Reader engagement experiments in wikipedia

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 849-860

  Halfaker, Aaron ^a   Keyes, Oliver ^b   Taraborelli, Dario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Wikimedia Foundation Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiment; Legitimate peripheral participation; Open production; Participation; Quatitative; Social learning; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

LEGITIMATE PERIPHERAL PARTICIPATIONS; PARTICIPATION; QUATITATIVE; SOCIAL LEARNING; WIKIPEDIA;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; EXPERIMENTS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84874862430     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2441776.2441872     Document Type: Conference Paper

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