Role model designs and implementations with aspect-oriented programming
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Rise of the Network Society: The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture
Rise of the Network Society: The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture
Joystick Nation: How Videogames Ate Our Quarters, Won Our Hearts, and Rewired Our Minds
Joystick Nation: How Videogames Ate Our Quarters, Won Our Hearts, and Rewired Our Minds
The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age
The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age
Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia
GROUP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
Motivations of contributors to Wikipedia
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society
Communications of the ACM
On the Inequality of Contributions to Wikipedia
HICSS '08 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Mopping up: modeling wikipedia promotion decisions
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Articulations of wikiwork: uncovering valued work in wikipedia through barnstars
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
Readers are not free-riders: reading as a form of participation on wikipedia
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Technology-mediated contributions: editing behaviors among new wikipedians
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Specialization, homophily, and gender in a social curation site: findings from pinterest
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
Latent Users in an Online User-Generated Content Community
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
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Perceptions of information products such as Wikipedia can depend on assumptions and stereotypes about the people who create them. As new Wikipedians consider contributing they are likely to apply such assumptions and ask themselves: "Are Wikipedia contributors my kind of people? Is this a group I'd like to belong to?" In this qualitative study I address the potential challenge of these questions by exploring readers and infrequent editors' perceptions of Wikipedia contributors and their motivations. Through analysis of twenty semi-structured interviews, I find evidence of strong negative perceptions as well as positive ones which nonetheless prevent users from identifying with active Wikipedia contributors. I argue that these perceptions present a barrier to the progression of participation over time. I conclude by discussing the practical challenges of my findings for Wikipedia and other online collaborative systems.