Dear Wiki-research list members,
I am new to the list, so I hope this is the right place.
I'm looking for studies or good sources on what motivates the volunteer Wikipedians to become involved and stay involved in writing articles to and editing Wikipedia?
This motivation is probably quite multi-layered ranging from wider goals (that may be sometimes post-hoc rationalizations) and shorter goals and incentives (that may be less easily rationalized). E.g. for me, I believe somewhat in the mission, but what gets me going probably is more if I see someone being wrong on the public part of the internet.
What motivates the wikipedians? What do the wikipedians get out of this for themselves? What are the proximal motivations that get them going? If you know any sources, sending them to my personal e-mail as well as to the list is ok.
Many thanks!
Best regards,
Peeter Tinits
Dear Peeter,
I agree that Editors' motivation is multi-layered. There has been research on it since 2005 or 2007. Sometimes by means of surveys addressing the different categories or motives, while in other occasions they are complemented by computational analysis. I had to review the motivation for my phd thesis I am currently doing, so here are some of the main studies I found:
O. Nov. 2007. What motivates Wikipedians? *CACM* 50, 11 (2007), 60–64. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1297797.1297798 S. Kuznetsov. 2006. Motivations of contributors to Wikipedia. *ACM SIGCAS computers and society* 36, 2 (2006), 1.
B. Xu and D. Li. 2015. An empirical study of the motivations for content contribution and community participation in Wikipedia. *IAM* 52, 3 (April 2015), 275–286. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2014.12.003
X. Zhang and F. Zhu. 2006. Intrinsic motivation of open content contributors: The case of Wikipedia. *Workshop on Information Systems and Economics* (2006), 1601–1615.
H.-L. Yang and C.-Y. Lai. 2010. Computers in Human Behavior. *Computers in Human Behavior* 26, 6 (November 2010), 1377–1383. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2010.04.011 In case you can't find one, just e-mail me. Best regards,
Marc Miquel ᐧ
2016-02-21 9:39 GMT+01:00 Peeter Tinits peeter.tinits@gmail.com:
Dear Wiki-research list members,
I am new to the list, so I hope this is the right place.
I'm looking for studies or good sources on what motivates the volunteer Wikipedians to become involved and stay involved in writing articles to and editing Wikipedia?
This motivation is probably quite multi-layered ranging from wider goals (that may be sometimes post-hoc rationalizations) and shorter goals and incentives (that may be less easily rationalized). E.g. for me, I believe somewhat in the mission, but what gets me going probably is more if I see someone being wrong on the public part of the internet.
What motivates the wikipedians? What do the wikipedians get out of this for themselves? What are the proximal motivations that get them going? If you know any sources, sending them to my personal e-mail as well as to the list is ok.
Many thanks!
Best regards,
Peeter Tinits
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Dear Peeter,
If you can read the French I can send you my Master 2 dissertation in sociology. Maybe you could at least look at the bibliography to look for sources.
Best regards,
-- Theo HENRI
Le 21 févr. 2016 à 10:53, Marc Miquel marcmiquel@gmail.com a écrit :
Dear Peeter,
I agree that Editors' motivation is multi-layered. There has been research on it since 2005 or 2007. Sometimes by means of surveys addressing the different categories or motives, while in other occasions they are complemented by computational analysis. I had to review the motivation for my phd thesis I am currently doing, so here are some of the main studies I found: O. Nov. 2007. What motivates Wikipedians? CACM 50, 11 (2007), 60–64. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1297797.1297798 http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1297797.1297798 S. Kuznetsov. 2006. Motivations of contributors to Wikipedia. ACM SIGCAS computers and society 36, 2 (2006), 1. B. Xu and D. Li. 2015. An empirical study of the motivations for content contribution and community participation in Wikipedia. IAM 52, 3 (April 2015), 275–286. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2014.12.003 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2014.12.003 X. Zhang and F. Zhu. 2006. Intrinsic motivation of open content contributors: The case of Wikipedia. Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (2006), 1601–1615.
H.-L. Yang and C.-Y. Lai. 2010. Computers in Human Behavior. Computers in Human Behavior 26, 6 (November 2010), 1377–1383. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2010.04.011 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2010.04.011 In case you can't find one, just e-mail me. Best regards,
Marc Miquel ᐧ
2016-02-21 9:39 GMT+01:00 Peeter Tinits <peeter.tinits@gmail.com mailto:peeter.tinits@gmail.com>: Dear Wiki-research list members,
I am new to the list, so I hope this is the right place.
I'm looking for studies or good sources on what motivates the volunteer Wikipedians to become involved and stay involved in writing articles to and editing Wikipedia?
This motivation is probably quite multi-layered ranging from wider goals (that may be sometimes post-hoc rationalizations) and shorter goals and incentives (that may be less easily rationalized). E.g. for me, I believe somewhat in the mission, but what gets me going probably is more if I see someone being wrong on the public part of the internet.
What motivates the wikipedians? What do the wikipedians get out of this for themselves? What are the proximal motivations that get them going? If you know any sources, sending them to my personal e-mail as well as to the list is ok.
Many thanks!
Best regards, Peeter Tinits
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Hello Peeter,
Le dimanche 21 février 2016, 10:39:10 Peeter Tinits a écrit :
I am new to the list, so I hope this is the right place.
Welcome to the list :)
I'm looking for studies or good sources on what motivates the volunteer Wikipedians to become involved and stay involved in writing articles to and editing Wikipedia?
In addition to the (great) list provided by Marc, you might find these other resources useful as well:
* The "Motivation" keyword on WikiPapers: http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/Motivation
* The (very draft-y) Codex page for Contributor motivation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Codex/Motivations_of_contributors#R...
* A search for "Motivation" in the Research Newsletter archives: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=motivation&prefix=...
Hope this helps!
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