Hello list,
Some time ago I was reading a blog created by a group of editors of the
Italian Wikipedia for the 10 years birthday of Wikipedia. [1] There was
an interesting series of posts written by some prominent members of the
community recalling their first experience with Wikipedia. What struck
me from these accounts is that several of them wrote they had spent some
time contributing anonymously before registering a user account.
I was wondering if there are any figures on how systematic the
phenomenon might be. Has anybody ever looked into this kind of questions
(not necessarily in the context of Wikipedia)?
Pointers to the literature would be very much appreciated :-)
Cheers,
[1]:
http://dieciannidisapere.it/ (in Italian)
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Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia
Ph.D. Candidate
Faculty of Informatics
University of Lugano
Web:
http://www.inf.usi.ch/phd/ciampaglia/
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