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Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia

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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.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2006
Format	White Papers
Topics	Search Strategies, Programming Languages

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