I think the first part of your claim needs to be substantiated first! Almost all of the content on the English Wikipedia, for example, is of low quality.<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Index">
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Index</a><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Desilets, Alain</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:Alain.Desilets@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca">
Alain.Desilets@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I need a good solid reference to substantiate the following claim:
<br><br>&quot;Besides leading to high quality content, wikis have been shown to be good tools for fostering the emergence of active communities&quot;<br><br>Does anyone know of a good research paper that looks specifically at this kind of impact of wikis?
<br><br>Thx.<br><br><br>----<br>Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada<br>Chair, WikiSym 2007<br><br>2007 International Symposium on Wikis<br>Wikis at Work in the World:<br>Open, Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century
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