Thanks a lot for pointing me to your paper, Morten.
Will check Kane & Ransbotham's work as well.
Best,
Haifeng Zhang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
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Hi Haifeng,
In addition to the two you mention, WikiProjects might have "Collaboration
of the Week", there's the WikiCup, there's Wiki Ed. We studied all of those
in our 2015 CSCW paper: The Success and Failure of Quality Improvement
Projects in Peer Production Communities
https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~morten/publications/cscw2015-improvementprojeā¦
I would also recommend looking at the research on article quality that has
been done by Kane & Ransbotham. Right now I don't have the time to look up
their work again, but if I remember correctly they also looked at the
virtuous cycle of traffic and quality.
Cheers,
Morten
On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 at 17:39, Haifeng Zhang <haifeng1(a)andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
Thanks for your reply, Kerry. I meant any kind of
quality improvement.
Some mechanisms may target specific type of editors, and others might be
quite general.
Best,
Haifeng Zhang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
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editors
"Article quality" is quite a wide topic. I would imagine most good faith
contributors believe they are improving the quality of an article with
every edit. Do you have some specific type of quality improvement in mind?
E.g. more citations, more content, fewer spelling errors?
Kerry
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Dear folks,
I wonder what are those mechanisms/events (in Wikipedia or WikiProjects)
which may attract editors to improve article quality.
One example is Today's articles for improvement. Within WikipProjects,
GA/FA nominations seem useful too.
Thanks,
Haifeng Zhang
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