Assessing the Value of Coooperation in Wikipedia Export

@misc{citeulike:1129224, abstract = {Since its inception six years ago, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has accumulated 6.40 million articles and 250 million edits, contributed in a predominantly undirected and haphazard fashion by 5.77 million unvetted volunteers. Despite the apparent lack of order, the 50 million edits by 4.8 million contributors to the 1.5 million articles in the English-language Wikipedia follow strong certain overall regularities. We show that the accretion of edits to an article is described by a simple stochastic mechanism, resulting in a heavy tail of highly visible articles with a large number of edits. We also demonstrate a crucial correlation between article quality and number of edits, which validates Wikipedia as a successful collaborative effort.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Wilkinson, Dennis M. and Huberman, Bernardo A.}, citeulike-article-id = {1129224}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DL/0702140}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs.DL/0702140}, day = {2}, eprint = {cs.DL/0702140}, journal = {First Monday}, keywords = {cooperation, huberman, wiki, wikipedia}, month = {April}, number = {4}, posted-at = {2008-04-14 20:31:06}, priority = {2}, title = {Assessing the Value of Coooperation in Wikipedia}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DL/0702140}, volume = {12}, year = {2007} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:1129224 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1129224 N2 - Since its inception six years ago, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has accumulated 6.40 million articles and 250 million edits, contributed in a predominantly undirected and haphazard fashion by 5.77 million unvetted volunteers. Despite the apparent lack of order, the 50 million edits by 4.8 million contributors to the 1.5 million articles in the English-language Wikipedia follow strong certain overall regularities. We show that the accretion of edits to an article is described by a simple stochastic mechanism, resulting in a heavy tail of highly visible articles with a large number of edits. We also demonstrate a crucial correlation between article quality and number of edits, which validates Wikipedia as a successful collaborative effort. IS - 4 JF - First Monday TI - Assessing the Value of Coooperation in Wikipedia VL - 12 KW - cooperation KW - huberman KW - wiki KW - wikipedia AU - Wilkinson, Dennis AU - Huberman, Bernardo PY - 2007/04/02/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DL/0702140 ER -