Coordination in collective intelligence: the role of team structure and task interdependence
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Herding the cats: the influence of groups in coordinating peer production
Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Finding patterns in behavioral observations by automatically labeling forms of wikiwork in Barnstars
Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
The success of corporate wiki systems: an end user perspective
Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Project talk: coordination work and group membership in WikiProjects
Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration
Editing beyond articles: diversity & dynamics of teamwork in open collaborations
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
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A feature of online communities and notably Wikipedia is the increasing use of managerial techniques to coordinate the efforts of volunteers. In this short paper, we explore the influence of the organization of Wikipedia in so-called projects. We examine the project-based coordination activity and find bursts of activity, which appear to be related to individual leadership. Using time series, we show that coordination activity is positively correlated with contributions on articles. Finally, we bring evidence that this positive correlation is relying on two types of coordination: group coordination, with project leadership and articles editors strongly coinciding, and directed coordination, with differentiated online roles.