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@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_Wikipedia 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 _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l