Studying cooperation and conflict between authors with history flow visualizations
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Cooperation and quality in wikipedia
Proceedings of the 2007 international symposium on Wikis
Measuring article quality in wikipedia: models and evaluation
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management
Information quality work organization in wikipedia
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Size matters: word count as a measure of quality on wikipedia
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Beyond Wikipedia: coordination and conflict in online production groups
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Statistical measure of quality in Wikipedia
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Social Media Analytics
Co-authorship 2.0: patterns of collaboration in Wikipedia
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
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The extent to which a Wikipedia article refers to external sources to substantiate its content can be seen as a measure of its externally invoked authority. We introduce a protocol for characterising the referencing process in the context of general article editing. With a sample of relatively mature articles, we show that referencing does not occur regularly through an article's lifetime but is associated with periods of more substantial editing, when the article has reached a certain level of maturity (in terms of the number of times it has been revised and its length). References also tend to be contributed by editors who have contributed more frequently and more substantially to an article, suggesting that a subset of more qualified or committed editors may exist for each article.