Social rewarding in wiki systems - motivating the community

Authors:
Bernhard Hoisl;Wolfgang Aigner;Silvia Miksch
Affiliations:
Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria;Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria;Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria
Venue:
OCSC'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Online communities and social computing
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Online communities have something in common: their success rise and fall with the participation rate of active users. In this paper we focus on social rewarding mechanisms that generate benefits for users in order to achieve a higher contribution rate in a wiki system. In an online community, social rewarding is in the majority of cases based on accentuation of the most active members. As money cannot be used as a motivating factor others like status, power, acceptance, and glory have to be employed. We explain different social rewarding mechanisms which aim to meet these needs of users. Furthermore, we implemented a number of methods within the MediaWiki system, where social rewarding criteria are satisfied by generating a ranking of most active members.