The intellectual foundation of information organization
The intellectual foundation of information organization
Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems
Journal of Information Science
Dogear: Social bookmarking in the enterprise
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
tagging, communities, vocabulary, evolution
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Evaluating tagging behavior in social bookmarking systems: metrics and design heuristics
Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work
Scaling Consensus: Increasing Decentralization in Wikipedia Governance
HICSS '08 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
The collaborative organization of knowledge
Communications of the ACM - Designing games with a purpose
Articulations of wikiwork: uncovering valued work in wikipedia through barnstars
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
What's in Wikipedia?: mapping topics and conflict using socially annotated category structure
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Values and negotiation in classification work
Proceedings of the companion publication of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
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Category systems have traditionally been created by small committees of people who had authority over the system they were designing. With the rise of large-scale social media systems, category schemes are being created by groups with differing perspectives, values, and expectations for how categories will be used. Prior studies of social tagging and folksonomy focused on the application and evolution of the collective category scheme, but struggled to uncover some of the collective rationale undergirding the decision-making processes in those schemes. In this paper, we qualitatively analyze the early discussions among editors of Wikipedia about the design and creation of its category system. We highlight three themes that dominated the discussion: hierarchy, scope and navigation, and relate these themes to their more formal roots in the information science literature. We distill out four styles of collaboration with regard to category systems that apply broadly to social tagging and other folksonomies. We conclude the paper with implications for collaborative tools and category systems as applied to large-scale collaborative systems.