Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Size matters: word count as a measure of quality on wikipedia
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in wikipedia: quality through coordination
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Cognitive activities and levels of abstraction in procedural and object-oriented design
Human-Computer Interaction
Human-Computer Interaction
Lone Inventors as Sources of Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality?
Management Science
Marginality and Problem-Solving Effectiveness in Broadcast Search
Organization Science
Soylent: a word processor with a crowd inside
UIST '10 Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Reflecting on the DARPA Red Balloon Challenge
Communications of the ACM
The polymath project: lessons from a successful online collaboration in mathematics
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Predicting the perceived quality of online mathematics contributions from users' reputations
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Design lessons from the fastest q&a site in the west
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CrowdForge: crowdsourcing complex work
Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Participation in an online mathematics community: differentiating motivations to add
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Collaboratively crowdsourcing workflows with turkomatic
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Social coding in GitHub: transparency and collaboration in an open software repository
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
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The Internet has the potential to accelerate scientific problem solving by engaging a global pool of contributors. Existing approaches focus on broadcasting problems to many independent solvers. We investigate other approaches that may be advantageous by examining a community for mathematical problem solving -- MathOverflow -- in which contributors communicate and collaborate to solve new mathematical 'micro-problems' online. We contribute a simple taxonomy of collaborative acts derived from a process-level examination of collaborations and a quantitative analysis relating collaborative acts to solution quality. Our results indicate a diversity of ways in which mathematicians are reaching a solution, including by iteratively advancing a solution. A better understanding of such collaborative strategies can inform the design of tools to support distributed collaboration on complex problems.