Desilets, Alain wrote: > > I need a good solid reference to substantiate the following claim: > > "Besides leading to high quality content, wikis have been shown to be > good tools for fostering the emergence of active communities" > > Does anyone know of a good research paper that looks specifically at > this kind of impact of wikis?
Hi Alain, The following work by Dan Cosley et al. argues that wikis and traditional review-before-publication result in the same quality, but wiki gets there faster: Cosley, D., Frankowski, D., Terveen, L., & Riedl, J. (2006). Using Intelligent Task Routing and Contribution Review to Help Communities Build Artifacts of Lasting Value. Proc. CHI 2006. http://grouplens.org/papers/pdf/itr-chi2006.pdf (Full disclosure: this work is a product of my own research group.) HTH, Reid _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
