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In CHI '04: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (2004), pp. 319-326.
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We introduce a new interactive system: a game that is fun and can be used to create valuable output. When people play the game they help determine the contents of images by providing meaningful labels for them. If the game is played as much as popular online games, we estimate that most images on the Web can be labeled in a few months. Having proper labels associated with each image on the Web would allow for more accurate image search, improve ...
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(May 2003)
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Building data integration systems today is largely done by hand, in a very labor-intensive and error-prone process. In this paper we describe a conceptually new solution to this problem: thatof mass collaboration. The basic idea is to think about a data integration system as having a finite set of parameters whose values must be set. To build such a system the system administrators construct and deploy a system "shell", then ask the users to help the system "automatically converge" to the... ...
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(28 December 2006)
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<B> In just the last few years, traditional collaboration—in a meeting room, a conference call, even a convention center—has been superseded by collaborations on an astronomical scale. </B> <P> Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these massive online communities, <I>Wikinomics</I> proves this fear is folly. Smart firms can harness collective capability and genius to spur innovation, ...
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In Proceedings of I-KNOW 05 Conference (2005)
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Nature, Vol. 438, No. 7070. (14 December 2005), pp. 900-901.
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Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds. UPDATE: see details of how the data were collected for this article in the supplementary information. UPDATE 2 (28 March 2006). The results reported in this news story and their interpretation have been disputed by Encyclopaedia Britannica. Nature responded to these objections . One of the extraordinary stories of the Internet age is that of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopaedia that ...
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(23 October 2001)
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The paper explains why open source software is an instance of a potentially broader phenomenon. Specifically, I suggest that nonproprietary peer-production of information and cultural materials will likely be a ubiquitous phenomenon in a pervasively networked society. I describe a number of such enterprises, at various stages of the information production value chain. These enterprises suggest that incentives to engage in nonproprietary peer production are trivial as long as enough contributors can be organized to contribute. This implies that the limit on the reach of peer production efforts ...
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JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, Vol. 62, No. 2. (2006), pp. 213-228.
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In CHI '04: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (2004), pp. 575-582.
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The Internet has fostered an unconventional and powerful style of collaboration: "wiki" web sites, where every visitor has the power to become an editor. In this paper we investigate the dynamics of Wikipedia, a prominent, thriving wiki. We make three contributions. First, we introduce a new exploratory data analysis tool, the history flow visualization, which is effective in revealing patterns within the wiki context and which we believe will be useful in other collaborative situations as well. Second, we discuss several ...
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(03 April 2001)
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Suitable for system administrators or managers seeking an affordable content-management solution, <I>The Wiki Way</I> shows off how to take advantage of Wiki collaborative software, which allows users to post and edit content remotely. This book is all you need to get up and running with this exciting (and free) way to build and manage content.<p> This text is first and foremost a guide to what Wiki software is and how to install, customize, and administer it within your organization. Early sections ...
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(27 Feb 2006)
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We present an analysis of the statistical properties and growth of the free on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia. By describing topics by vertices and hyperlinks between them as edges, we can represent this encyclopedia as a directed graph. The topological properties of this graph are in close analogy with that of the World Wide Web, despite the very different growth mechanism. In particular we measure a scale--invariant distribution of the in-- and out-- degree and we are able to reproduce these features by ...
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(21 Dec 2005)
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This paper presents a novel analysis and visualization of English Wikipedia data. Our specific interest is the analysis of basic statistics, the identification of the semantic structure and age of the categories in this free online encyclopedia, and the content coverage of its highly productive authors. The paper starts with an introduction of Wikipedia and a review of related work. We then introduce a suite of measures and approaches to analyze and map the semantic structure of Wikipedia. The results show ...
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2870 (January 2003), pp. 351-368.
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(15 September 2000)
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If the phrase "planned community" makes you think of terrible homogenous suburbs, take another look at the Internet. Although there are unplanned aspects and emergent behaviors, every detail for the most part has been designed by people who thought that they knew what they were doing. Might we do better? Human-computer interactions expert Jenny Preece takes apart our preconceptions and suggests new ways to improve our virtual realities in <I>Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting ...
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