Measuring Creativity of Wikipedia Editors
Pentti Launonen, KC Kern, Sanna Tiilikainen
TL;DR
This paper investigates how Wikipedia editors' contribution patterns reflect creativity and social dynamics, identifying distinct personas and their distribution across article qualities.
Contribution
It introduces a novel analysis of editor personas and their relation to article quality, highlighting social constructs in collaborative editing.
Findings
Four socially constructed editor personas identified.
Different persona distributions across article qualities.
Support for social dynamics influencing collaboration.
Abstract
Our paper explores contribution patterns of creativity and collaboration of Wikipedia editors as manifestations of social dynamics between the editors. We find support for existence of four socially constructed personas among the editors and difference in distribution of personas in articles of different qualities.
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Taxonomy
TopicsWikis in Education and Collaboration · Digital Games and Media · Open Source Software Innovations