A preliminary study on the effects of barnstars on Wikipedia editing

Authors:
Kwan Hui Lim;Amitava Datta;Michael Wise
Affiliations:
The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia;The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia;The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
Venue:
Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration
Year:
2013

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Abstract

This paper presents a preliminary study into the awarding of barnstars among Wikipedia editors to better understand their motivations in contributing to Wikipedia articles. We crawled the talk pages of all active Wikipedia editors and retrieved 21,299 barnstars that were awarded among 14,074 editors. In particular, we found that editors do not award and receive barnstars in equal (or similar) quantities. Also, editors were more active in editing articles before awarding or receiving barnstars.