Network Structure in Virtual Organizations
Organization Science
Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
A content-driven reputation system for the wikipedia
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Achieving Quality in Open Source Software
IEEE Software
Cooperation and quality in wikipedia
Proceedings of the 2007 international symposium on Wikis
Creating, destroying, and restoring value in wikipedia
Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work
Feedback effects between similarity and social influence in online communities
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in wikipedia: quality through coordination
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Is Wikipedia growing a longer tail?
Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international conference on Supporting group work
Us vs. Them: Understanding Social Dynamics in Wikipedia with Revert Graph Visualizations
VAST '07 Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology
Bowling online: social networking and social capital within the organization
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Communities and technologies
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Tell me more: an actionable quality model for Wikipedia
Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration
Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration
Social Capital in Management Information Systems Literature
Journal of Information Technology Research
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In this study we measure the impact of pre-existing social capital on the efficiency of collaboration among Wikipedia editors. To construct a social network among Wikipedians we look to mutual interaction on the user talk pages of Wikipedia editors. As our data set, we analyze the communication networks associated with 3085 featured articles - the articles of highest quality in the English Wikipedia, comparing it to the networks of 80154 articles of lower quality. As the metric to assess the quality of collaboration, we measure the time of quality promotion from when an article is started until it is promoted to featured article. The study finds that the higher pre-existing social capital of editors working on an article is, the faster the articles they work on reach higher quality status, such as featured articles. The more cohesive and more centralized the collaboration network, and the more network members were already collaborating before starting to work together on an article, the faster the article they work on will be promoted or featured.