TY - GEN
T1 - Bursty coordination in online communities
AU - Zheng, Lei
AU - Mai, Feng
AU - Gordon, Deborah M.
AU - Nickerson, Jeffrey V.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The collective intelligence of online communities often depends on implicit forms of coordination, given the fluidity of membership and the lack of traditional hierarchies and associated incentive structures. This coordination drives knowledge production. Studying temporal dynamics may help elucidate how coordination happens. Specifically, the rate of interaction with an artifact such as a Wikipedia page can function as a signal that affects future interactions. Many activities can be characterized as bursty, meaning activity is not evenly spread or random, but is instead concentrated. This study analyzes 3,260 Wikipedia articles and shows that the coordination pattern in the Wikipedia community is mostly bursty. More importantly, the extent of burstiness affects article quality. This work highlights the important role temporal dynamics can play in the coordination process in online communities, and how it can affect the quality of knowledge production.
AB - The collective intelligence of online communities often depends on implicit forms of coordination, given the fluidity of membership and the lack of traditional hierarchies and associated incentive structures. This coordination drives knowledge production. Studying temporal dynamics may help elucidate how coordination happens. Specifically, the rate of interaction with an artifact such as a Wikipedia page can function as a signal that affects future interactions. Many activities can be characterized as bursty, meaning activity is not evenly spread or random, but is instead concentrated. This study analyzes 3,260 Wikipedia articles and shows that the coordination pattern in the Wikipedia community is mostly bursty. More importantly, the extent of burstiness affects article quality. This work highlights the important role temporal dynamics can play in the coordination process in online communities, and how it can affect the quality of knowledge production.
KW - Burstiness
KW - Coordination
KW - Productivity
KW - Temporal dynamics
KW - Wikipedia
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85114902494
T3 - 40th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2019
BT - 40th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2019
T2 - 40th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2019
Y2 - 15 December 2019 through 18 December 2019
ER -