Dear Finn,
Thank you so much for the literature recommendations regarding users' motivations to
contribute to Wikipedia. I was able to find some of these articles on my own, but many I
had missed and will incorporate into my literature review.
I should probably clarify what I meant when I said that "extant literature is
lacking". I in no way meant to dismiss the work that has been done in this field
(which is more extensive than I originally realized). Instead, I was referring to the
inconclusive results some of the articles I've read have found. In many of the
articles I've referenced, researchers look at motivation from an intrinsic/extrinsic
motivation perspective, which is a good way of measuring motivation, but maybe does not
explore other important facets.
Thanks again for the literature! I could not complete this project without the help of you
and others in the Wikipedia community.
Best,
Audrey
On Mar 20, 2012, at 8:52 AM, Finn Årup Nielsen wrote:
Dear Audrey,
On 03/19/2012 08:43 PM, emijrp wrote:
On WikiPapers we have some publications about
that subject
http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/Motivations
Regarding: "Extant literature on this topic is lacking".
As you see Emijrp has collected 10 papers categorized under motivation in his WikiPapers,
and in the recently announce Wikilit group we have also many papers on motivation (mostly
collected by the four other members of the Wikilit group), see e.g., this category with 30
papers:
http://wikilit.referata.com/wiki/Category:Contributor_motivation
Also the parent category:
http://wikilit.referata.com/wiki/Category:Antecedents_of_participation
52 papers are under this category. There is room for an entire review on its own. :-)
Cheers,
Finn
2012/3/17 Audrey Abeyta
<audrey.abeyta(a)gmail.com
<mailto:audrey.abeyta@gmail.com>>
Hello all,
I am an undergraduate student at the University of California, Santa
Barbara, conducting a senior honors thesis on users' motivations to
contribute to Wikipedia. A more detailed description of the project
can be read here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Motivations_to_Contribute_to_Wikipe…
My project's success is dependent on the valuable responses of
Wikipedia contributors, which I am collecting through an online
questionnaire. This brief questionnaire is completely anonymous and
should take approximately 10 minutes to complete. If any of you are
willing to complete this questionnaire, it can be accessed here:
https://us1.us.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8ixU9RkozemzC4s.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Sincerely,
Audrey Abeyta
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