Is English Wikipedia’s ‘rise and decline’ typical?

lkfitz's bookmarks 2018-04-24

Summary:

This graph shows the number of people contributing to Wikipedia over time: The number of active Wikipedia contributors exploded, suddenly stalled, and then began gradually declining. (Figure taken from Halfaker et al. 2013) The figure comes from “The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System,” a well-known 2013 paper that argued that Wikipedia’s transition …

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oa.new oa.wikipedia oa.wikimedia oa.crowd oa.quality oa.wikis blog posts

Authors:

Benjamin Mako Hill

Date tagged:

04/24/2018, 01:31

Date published:

04/23/2018, 08:43