Title:
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QUALITY CONTENTS CREATION IN A COMMONSBASED PEER PRODUCTION ON LINE ENVIRONMENT: |
Author(s):
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Sara Monaci |
ISBN:
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978-972-8924-68-3 |
Editors:
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Pedro Isaías, Miguel Baptista Nunes and Dirk Ifenthaler |
Year:
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2008 |
Edition:
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Single |
Keywords:
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Commons-based peer production, Wikipedia, quality content, open knowledge, social organization on line |
Type:
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Full Paper |
First Page:
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11 |
Last Page:
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18 |
Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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The increasing growth of Wikipedia poses many questions about its organizational model and its development as a freeopen
knowledge repository. Yochai Benkler describes Wikipedia as a CBPP (commons-based peer production) system: a
platform which enables users to easily generate knowledge contents and to manage them collaboratively and on freevoluntary
basis. The quality of its output is one of the main concerns related to Wikipedia. How would a CBPP
environment guarantee at the same time the openness of its organization and a good level of accreditation? Which aspects
of the project have more influence on quality? The paper offers an overview of one of the quality processes in it.wiki
(Italian Wikipedia): the Vetrina section (Featured Articles). It also suggests an explanation to quality accreditation issue
which questions Benklers hypothesis. Thanks to a qualitative analysis carried out through in-depth interviews to
Wikipedia users and through a period of ethnographic observation, the paper outlines Vetrinas organization and the
social factors related to quality definition. The goal of the analysis is to give a better understanding of co-generation of
contents processes and at the same time it tries to investigate quality assessment in one of the best known open
knowledge on line project. |
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