Hoisl, Bernhard. 2007. Social Rewarding in Wiki Systems - Motivating the Community. 2nd International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing (OCSC), Beijing, China, 22.07.-27.07..
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Abstract
Online communities have something in common: their success rise and fall with the participation rate of active users. In this paper we focus on social rewarding mechanisms that generate benefits for users in order to achieve a higher contribution rate in a wiki system. In an online community, social rewarding is in the majority of cases based on accentuation of the most active members. As money cannot be used as a motivating factor others like status, power, acceptance, and glory have to be employed. We explain different social rewarding mechanisms which aim to meet these needs of users. Furthermore, we implemented a number of methods within the MediaWiki system, where social rewarding criteria are satisfied by generating a ranking of most active members.
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Paper presented at an academic conference or symposium |
Language | English |
Title | Social Rewarding in Wiki Systems - Motivating the Community |
Event | 2nd International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing (OCSC) |
Year | 2007 |
Date | 22.07.-27.07. |
Country | China |
Location | Beijing |
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- People
- Hoisl, Bernhard (Former researcher)
- Organization
- Institute for Information Systems and New Media IN (Details)
- Research areas (Ă–STAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 1105 Computer software (Details)
- 1108 Informatics (Details)
- 1140 Software engineering (Details)
- 1156 Web engineering (Details)