Two case studies of open source software development: Apache and Mozilla
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia
GROUP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia
HICSS '07 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Wikis to support collaborative web spaces to promote youth well-being
Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Measuring wiki viability: an empirical assessment of the social dynamics of a large sample of wikis
WikiSym '08 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Wikis
Supporting collaborative help for individualized use
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Wikis are collaborative platforms enabling collective elaboration of knowledge, the most famous and possibly the most successful thereof being the Wikipedia. There are currently plenty of other active open-access wikis, with varying success: some recruit many users and achieve sustainability, while others strive to attract sufficient active contributors, irrespective of the topic of the wiki. We make an exploratory investigation of some factors likely to account for these various destinies (such as distinct policies, norms, user incentives, technical and structural features), examining the demographics of a portion of the wikisphere. We underline the intertwining of population and content dynamics and emphasize the existence of different periods of development of a wiki-based community, from bootstrapping by founders with a pre-established set of rules, to more stable regimes where constant enrollment and training of new users balances out the occasional departure of more advanced users.