Talk before you type: Coordination in Wikipedia

F.B. Viégas; M. Wattenberg; J. Kriss; F.J.J. Ham, van

doi:10.1109/HICSS.2007.511

Talk before you type: Coordination in Wikipedia

F.B. Viégas, M. Wattenberg, J. Kriss, F.J.J. Ham, van

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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. We contrast our findings with an earlier study and present 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, we focus on a particular set of pages used to coordinate work, the "Talk" pages. By manually coding the content of a subset of these pages, we find that these pages serve many purposes, notably supporting strategic planning of edits and enforcement of standard guidelines and conventions. Our results suggest that despite the potential for anarchy, the Wikipedia community places a strong emphasis on group coordination, policy, and process

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2007) 3-6 January 2007, Waikoloa, Big Island HI, USA
Place of Publication	Los Alamitos, California, USA
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	78-1/10
ISBN (Print)	0-7695-2755-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2007.511
Publication status	Published - 2007
Event	40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) - Hilton Waikoloa Village, Waikoloa, United States Duration: 3 Jan 2007 → 6 Jan 2007 Conference number: 40

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Conference	40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
Abbreviated title	HICSS-40
Country/Territory	United States
City	Waikoloa
Period	3/01/07 → 6/01/07

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Viégas, F. B., Wattenberg, M., Kriss, J., & Ham, van, F. J. J. (2007). Talk before you type: Coordination in Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2007) 3-6 January 2007, Waikoloa, Big Island HI, USA (pp. 78-1/10). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2007.511

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Viégas, FB, Wattenberg, M, Kriss, J & Ham, van, FJJ 2007, Talk before you type: Coordination in Wikipedia. in Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2007) 3-6 January 2007, Waikoloa, Big Island HI, USA. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Los Alamitos, California, USA, pp. 78-1/10, 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Waikoloa, Hawaii, United States, 3/01/07. https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2007.511

Talk before you type: Coordination in Wikipedia. / Viégas, F.B.; Wattenberg, M.; Kriss, J. et al.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2007) 3-6 January 2007, Waikoloa, Big Island HI, USA. Los Alamitos, California, USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2007. p. 78-1/10.

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Viégas FB, Wattenberg M, Kriss J, Ham, van FJJ. Talk before you type: Coordination in Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2007) 3-6 January 2007, Waikoloa, Big Island HI, USA. Los Alamitos, California, USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 2007. p. 78-1/10 doi: 10.1109/HICSS.2007.511

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