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(a)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.
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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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