Wikipedia: organisation from a bottom-up approach

dc.creatorSpek, Sander
dc.creatorPostma, Eric
dc.creatorHerik, H. Jaap van den
dc.date2006-11-15
dc.date2006-12-11
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:31:42Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:31:42Z
dc.descriptionWikipedia can be considered as an extreme form of a self-managing team, as a means of labour division. One could expect that this bottom-up approach, with the absense of top-down organisational control, would lead to a chaos, but our analysis shows that this is not the case. In the Dutch Wikipedia, an integrated and coherent data structure is created, while at the same time users succeed in distributing roles by self-selection. Some users focus on an area of expertise, while others edit over the whole encyclopedic range. This constitutes our conclusion that Wikipedia, in general, is a successful example of a self-managing team.
dc.descriptionPresented on the Research in Wikipedia workshop, of the WikiSym 2006
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0611068
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0611068
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/118850
dc.subjectDigital Libraries
dc.subjectComputers and Society
dc.subjectH.3.7; H.4.3
dc.titleWikipedia: organisation from a bottom-up approach
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