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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Index
On 8/29/07, Desilets, Alain Alain.Desilets@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca wrote:
I need a good solid reference to substantiate the following claim:
"Besides leading to high quality content, wikis have been shown to be good tools for fostering the emergence of active communities"
Does anyone know of a good research paper that looks specifically at this kind of impact of wikis?
Thx.
Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada Chair, WikiSym 2007
2007 International Symposium on Wikis Wikis at Work in the World: Open, Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/
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