Group awareness in distributed software development
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
SuggestBot: using intelligent task routing to help people find work in wikipedia
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Do as I do:: authorial leadership in wikipedia
Proceedings of the 2007 international symposium on Wikis
Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in wikipedia: quality through coordination
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Leadership in online creative collaboration
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Feed me: motivating newcomer contribution in social network sites
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Beyond Wikipedia: coordination and conflict in online production groups
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis
ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis
Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Participation in an online mathematics community: differentiating motivations to add
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Dynamic changes in motivation in collaborative citizen-science projects
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Redistributing leadership in online creative collaboration
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Crowd vs. crowd: large-scale cooperative design through open team competition
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Mathematical practice, crowdsourcing, and social machines
CICM'13 Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
Collaborative problem solving: a study of MathOverflow
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
Sharing Knowledge and Expertise: The CSCW View of Knowledge Management
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
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Although science is becoming increasingly collaborative, there are remarkably few success stories of online collaborations between professional scientists that actually result in real discoveries. A notable exception is the Polymath Project, a group of mathematicians who collaborate online to solve open mathematics problems. We provide an in-depth descriptive history of Polymath, using data analysis and visualization to elucidate the principles that led to its success, and the difficulties that must be addressed before the project can be scaled up. We find that although a small percentage of users created most of the content, almost all users nevertheless contributed some content that was highly influential to the task at hand. We also find that leadership played an important role in the success of the project. Based on our analysis, we present a set of design suggestions for how future collaborative mathematics sites can encourage and foster newcomer participation.