Lurker demographics: counting the silent
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
We can see you: a study of communities' invisible people through reachout
Communities and technologies
Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia
GROUP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
The computational geowiki: what, why, and how
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Wikipedians are born, not made: a study of power editors on Wikipedia
Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international conference on Supporting group work
Lurking? cyclopaths?: a quantitative lifecycle analysis of user behavior in a geowiki
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Latent Users in an Online User-Generated Content Community
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
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To be online, for most people, means to be part of some online communities, but the moment you visit a website, you are beginning your user lifecycle with that site. Previous quantitative work has shown that the early stages of the user lifecycle are the most important. We asked 400 users of the Cyclopath geowiki to complete a survey asking, among other things, about why they chose to register and what their first experiences on the site were. The responses allow us to think more carefully about the difficult barrier of registration and how this may be impacting the user lifecycles on Cyclopath and other online communities.