@inproceedings{897f3d0caf7648ffbc0e4b6fc5b58bfa,
title = "Revisiting {"}The rise and decline{"} in a population of peer production projects",
abstract = "Do patterns of growth and stabilization found in large peer production systems such as Wikipedia occur in other communities? This study assesses the generalizability of Halfaker et al.'s influential 2013 paper on {"}The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System.{"} We replicate its tests of several theories related to newcomer retention and norm entrenchment using a dataset of hundreds of active peer production wikis from Wikia. We reproduce the subset of the findings from Halfaker and colleagues that we are able to test, comparing both the estimated signs and magnitudes of our models. Our results support the external validity of Halfaker et al.'s claims that quality control systems may limit the growth of peer production communities by deterring new contributors and that norms tend to become entrenched over time.",
keywords = "Governance, Online communities, Peer production, Quality control, Replication, Retention, Wikipedia, Wikis",
author = "Nathan TeBlunthuis and Aaron Shaw and Hill, {Benjamin Mako}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.; 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018 ; Conference date: 21-04-2018 Through 26-04-2018",
year = "2018",
month = apr,
day = "20",
doi = "10.1145/3173574.3173929",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
booktitle = "CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
}