The Promise of Research on Open Source Software
Management Science
What's mine is mine: territoriality in collaborative authoring
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Understanding Sustained Participation in Open Source Software Projects
Journal of Management Information Systems
Social and Economic Networks
Decentralization in Wikipedia Governance
Journal of Management Information Systems
Finding social roles in Wikipedia
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
Organization Science
Developer Heterogeneity and Formation of Communication Networks in Open Source Software Projects
Journal of Management Information Systems
Information Quality in Wikipedia: The Effects of Group Composition and Task Conflict
Journal of Management Information Systems
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We study the effect of collaboration network structure on the contribution behavior of participating editors in Wikipedia. Collaboration in Wikipedia is organized around articles, and any two editors co-editing an article have a collaborative relationship. Based on the economic theories about network games and social role theory, we propose that an editor's position in the collaboration network influences the editor's decisions about her total contribution as well as the allocation of her efforts. By leveraging panel data collected from the Chinese language version of Wikipedia and a natural experiment resulting from blocking it in mainland China, we find strong support for the proposed effect of network position on contribution behavior. Our analysis further reveals that different aspects of an individual's network position have distinct implications. This research enhances our understanding about how collaboration network structure shapes individual behavior in online mass collaboration platforms.