Functional roles and career paths in wikipedia

CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1092-1105

  Arazy, Ofer ^a   Ortega, Felipe ^b   Nov, Oded ^c   Yeo, Lisa ^d   Balila, Adam ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

functional roles; organizational structure; Peer production; role transitions; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

CAREER PATHS; FUNCTIONAL ROLES; ONLINE PRODUCTION COMMUNITIES; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; PEER PRODUCTION; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; WIKIPEDIA;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 84968719055     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2675133.2675257     Document Type: Conference Paper

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