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Collaboration with Lean Media: how open-source software succeeds
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The cathedral and the bazaar: musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary
The cathedral and the bazaar: musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary
Group awareness in distributed software development
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design (Acting with Technology)
Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design (Acting with Technology)
Self-organization of teams for free/libre open source software development
Information and Software Technology
He says, she says: conflict and coordination in Wikipedia
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia
HICSS '07 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Cooperation and quality in wikipedia
Proceedings of the 2007 international symposium on Wikis
Communications of the ACM
Strong regularities in online peer production
Proceedings of the 9th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in wikipedia: quality through coordination
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
Herding the cats: the influence of groups in coordinating peer production
Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Decentralization in Wikipedia Governance
Journal of Management Information Systems
Socialization tactics in wikipedia and their effects
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
The effects of diversity on group productivity and member withdrawal in online volunteer groups
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Project management in the Wikipedia community
Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Coordination and beyond: social functions of groups in open content production
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Searching for the goldilocks zone: trade-offs in managing online volunteer groups
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Editing beyond articles: diversity & dynamics of teamwork in open collaborations
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
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WikiProjects have contributed to Wikipedia's success in important ways, yet the range of work that WikiProjects perform and the way they coordinate that work remains largely unexplored. In this study, we perform a content analysis of 788 work-related discussions from the talk pages of 138 WikiProjects in order to understand the role WikiProjects play in collaborative work on Wikipedia. We find that the editors use WikiProjects to coordinate a wide variety of work activities beyond content production and that non-members play an active role in that work. Our research suggests that WikiProject collaboration is less structured and more open than that of many virtual teams and that WikiProjects may function more like FLOSS projects than traditional groups.