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Innovating collaborative content creation: The role of altruism and wiki technology

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Abstract

Wikipedia demonstrates the feasibility and success of an innovative form of content creation, namely openly shared, collaborative writing. This research sought to understand the success of Wikipedia as a collaborative model, considering both technology and participant motivations. The research finds that while participants have both individualistic and collaborative motives, collaborative (altruistic) motives dominate. The collaboration model differs from that of open source software development, which is less inclusive with respect to participation, and more "selfish" with respect to contributor motives. The success of the Wikipedia model appears to be related to wiki technology and the "wiki way" of collaboration. © 2007 IEEE.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Event40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2007, HICSS'07 - Big Island, HI, United States
Duration: 3 Jan 20076 Jan 2007

Publication series

Name
ISSN (Print)1530-1605

Conference

Conference40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2007, HICSS'07
PlaceUnited States
CityBig Island, HI
Period3/01/076/01/07

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