Submissions/Almost Wikipedia
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This is an accepted submission for Wikimania 2012. |
- Submission no.
147
- Title of the submission
Almost Wikipedia: What Eight Collaborative Encyclopedia Projects Reveal About Mechanisms of Collective Action
- Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, panel, presentation)
Presentation
- Author of the submission
- E-mail address
mako@mit.edu
- Username
- Country of origin
USA
- Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Harvard University (Berkman Center for Internet and Society)
- Personal homepage or blog
- Abstract (at least 300 words to describe your proposal)
I'm going to present some preliminary findings from a qualitative, inductive, case-study based analysis of 8 early projects to create online collaborative encyclopedias founded before Wikipedia. My initial results are based on data from 8 projects -- the full population -- in the form of interviews of the projects' founders and extensive archival data. My findings are a set of propositions focused on suggesting why Wikipedia succeeded in attracting contributors while the other projects did so less effectively. In a follow-up project, I'm hoping to test these in a quantitative dataset I've been building.
The project is part of a larger research project that attempts to use failure cases to understand why some attempts at online collective action are successful while most never take off.
Additional information:
- Video of Talk given at Harvard in October 2011
- Article by Megan Garber that summarizes the results of the research and which is published at the Nieman Journalism Lab
- Track
WikiCulture and Community; Research, Analysis, and Education
- Length of presentation/talk
- 25 Minutes
- Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?
Definitely!
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