Defense mechanism or socialization tactic? Improving Wikipedia's notifications to rejected contributors

ICWSM 2012 - Proceedings of the 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 122-129

  Geiger, R Stuart ^a   Halfaker, Aaron ^b   Pinchuk, Maryana ^c   Walling, Steven ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Wikimedia Foundation Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EXPONENTIAL GROWTH; PASSIVE VOICES; PERSONALIZED MESSAGES; REGRESSION MODEL; SOCIOTECHNICAL; USER ACTIVITY;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84876167759     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (16)

1. Berger, C. R., & Calabrese, R. J. 1975. Some Explorations in Initial Interaction and Beyond: Toward a Developmental Theory of Interpersonal Communication. Human Communication Research, 1(2): 99-112.
2. Choi, B., Alexander, K., Kraut, R. E., & Levine, J. M. 2010. Socialization Tactics in Wikipedia and Their Effects. In Proc CSCW 2010.
3. Geiger, R.S. 2009. The social roles of bots and assisted editing programs. In Proc Wikisym 2009.
4. Geiger, R.S., & Ribes, D. 2010. The work of sustaining order in wikipedia: the banning of a vandal. In Proc CSCW 2010.
5. Gruman, J. A., Saks, A. M., & Zweig, D. I. 2006. Organizational socialization tactics and newcomer proactive behaviors: An integrative study. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 69(1): 90-104.
6. Halfaker, A., Kittur, A., Kraut, R., & Riedl, John. 2009. A Jury of Your Peers: Quality, Experience and Ownership in Wikipedia. In Proc Wikisym 2009.
7. Jones, G. R. 1986. Socialization Tactics, Self-Efficacy, and Newcomers' Adjustments to Organizations. Academy of Management Journal, 29(2): 262-279.
8. Kraut, R., Burke, M., & Riedl, John. 2010. Dealing with Newcomers. In R. E. Kraut & P. Resnick (Eds.), Evidencebased Social Design Mining the Social Sciences to Build Online Communities: 1-42. MIT Press.
9. Lester, R. E. 1987. Organizational culture, uncertainty reduction and the socialization of new organizational members. In S. Thomas (Ed.), Culture and communication: Methodology, behavior, artifacts and institutions: 105-113. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
10. Van Maanen, J., & Schein, E. H. 1979. Toward a theory of organizational socialization. Research In Organizational Behavior, 1(1): 209-264.
11. Mockus, A., Fielding, R. T., & Herbsleb, J. 2000. A case study of open source software development: the Apache server. In Proc ICSE 2000.
12. Ortega, F., Gonzalez-Barahona, J., & Robles, G. 2008. On the Inequality of Contributions to Wikipedia. In Proc HICSS 2008.
13. Priedhorsky, R., Riedl, J., Lam, S. T. K., Panciera, K., Chen, J., & Terveen, L. 2007. Creating, destroying, and restoring value in wikipedia. In Proc GROUP 2005
14. Stvilia, B., Twidale, M., Smith, L., & Gasser, L. 2005. Assessing information quality of a community-based encyclopedia. In Proc ICIQ 2005.
15. Viegas, F., Wattenberg, M., & Kushal, D. 2004. Studying Cooperation and Conflict between Authors with history flow Visualizations. In Proc CHI 2004.
16. Wilkinson, D. M. 2008. Strong regularities in online peer production. In Proc EC 2008.