When the levee breaks: Without bots, what happens to wikipedia's quality control processes?

Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, WikiSym + OpenSym 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Geiger, R Stuart ^a   Halfaker, Aaron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automation; Bots; Information quality; Peer production; Socio technical systems; Software agents; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

BOTS; INFORMATION QUALITY; PEER PRODUCTION; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS; WIKIPEDIA;

AUTOMATION; MAINTENANCE; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84888189123     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2491055.2491061     Document Type: Conference Paper

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