What motivates Wikipedians?

Authors:
Oded Nov
Affiliations:
Polytechnic University, New York
Venue:
Communications of the ACM
Year:
2007

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Abstract

In order to increase and enhance user-generated content contributions, it is important to understand the factors that lead people to freely share their time and knowledge with others.