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Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia
Overview Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, has attracted attention both because of its popularity and its unconventional policy of letting anyone on the internet edit its articles. This paper describes the results of an empirical analysis of Wikipedia and discusses ways in which the Wikipedia community has evolved as it has grown. This paper contrasts its findings with an earlier study and presents three main results. First, the community maintains a strong resilience to malicious editing, despite tremendous growth and high traffic. Second, the fastest growing areas of Wikipedia are devoted to coordination and organization. Finally, it focuses on a particular set of pages used to coordinate work, the "Talk" pages.
| Publisher | IBM | File Format | |
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| Date Published | September 2006 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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