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Measuring wiki viability ( II ) Towards a standard framework for tracking content-based online communities
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Taraborelli, Dario |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | One of the major issues facing socially-driven content and collaborative work on the Web (such as Wikipedia) is the lack of tools to measure at large scale the evolution of content (in terms of quality and quantity), to reduce the dropout rate of active contributors or to detect vandalism in a timely manner. Collaborative projects typically die of inactivity for an insufficient number of valuable contributions or, conversely, whenever quality assessment becomes unmanageable due to content explosion or inappropriate measures against spam or vandalism. Governance of wiki-based communities has been based so far on a shared corpus of best practices and recommendations, due to the lack of tools to identify virtuous or potentially disruptive patterns in a timely and measurable way. In this paper we illustrate a framework for the study of factors that may help predict the sustainability of wiki-based communities based on a methodology successfully applied to other content-based online communities. We present an overview and draft specifications of WikiTracer, a Web service aiming to track wiki dynamics in a standardized way and to generate performance indicators for wiki-based communities at large scale. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.patres-project.eu/images/9/9c/WikiTrack.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
