Conference proceeding
Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia
Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on supporting group work, pp 1-10
06 Nov 2005
Abstract
Traditional activities change in surprising ways when computer-mediated communication becomes a component of the activity system. In this descriptive study, we leverage two perspectives on social activity to understand the experiences of individuals who became active collaborators in Wikipedia, a prolific, cooperatively-authored online encyclopedia. Legitimate peripheral participation provides a lens for understanding participation in a community as an adaptable process that evolves over time. We use ideas from activity theory as a framework to describe our results. Finally, we describe how activity on the Wikipedia stands in striking contrast to traditional publishing and suggests a new paradigm for collaborative systems.
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Details
- Title
- Becoming Wikipedian
- Creators
- Susan BryantAndrea ForteAmy Bruckman
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on supporting group work, pp 1-10
- Conference
- 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on supporting group work
- Series
- GROUP '05
- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Number of pages
- 1
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-77950316551
- Other Identifier
- 991014878326404721