Creating critical mass in collaboration systems: Insights from wikipedia

Pattarawan Prasarnphanich; Christian Wagner

doi:10.1109/DEST.2008.4635185

Creating critical mass in collaboration systems: Insights from wikipedia

Pattarawan Prasarnphanich
, Christian Wagner

Department of Information Systems

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review

13 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Digital ecosystems that rely on peer production, where users are consumers as well as producers of information and knowledge, are becoming increasingly popular and viable. Supported by Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, these systems have the potential to replace existing knowledge management systems which generally rely on a small group of experts. The fundamental question for all such systems is under which conditions, the collective acts of knowledge contribution are started and become self-sustaining? Our article addresses this question, using Wikipedia as an exemplary system. Through a collective action framework, we apply critical mass theory to explain emergence and sustainability of the peer production approach. © 2008 IEEE.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2008 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, IEEE-DEST 2008
Pages	126-130
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/DEST.2008.4635185
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	2008 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, IEEE-DEST 2008 - Phitsanulok, Thailand Duration: 26 Feb 2008 → 29 Feb 2008

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Conference	2008 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, IEEE-DEST 2008
Place	Thailand
City	Phitsanulok
Period	26/02/08 → 29/02/08

Research Keywords

Collaborative knowledge creation
Collective action
Critical mass
Digital ecosystem

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Prasarnphanich, P & Wagner, C 2008, Creating critical mass in collaboration systems: Insights from wikipedia. in 2008 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, IEEE-DEST 2008., 4635185, pp. 126-130, 2008 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, IEEE-DEST 2008, Phitsanulok, Thailand, 26/02/08. https://doi.org/10.1109/DEST.2008.4635185

Creating critical mass in collaboration systems: Insights from wikipedia. / Prasarnphanich, Pattarawan; Wagner, Christian.
2008 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, IEEE-DEST 2008. 2008. p. 126-130 4635185.

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