The behavior and network position of peer production founders

Jeremy Foote; Noshir Contractor

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-78105-1_12

The behavior and network position of peer production founders

Jeremy Foote^*, Noshir Contractor

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Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences

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Abstract

Online peer production projects, such as Wikipedia and open-source software, have become important producers of cultural and technological goods. While much research has been done on the way that large existing projects work, little is known about how projects get started or who starts them. Nor is it clear how much influence founders have on the future trajectory of a community. We measure the behavior and social networks of 60,959 users on Wikia.com over a two month period. We compare the activity, local network positions, and global network positions of future founders and non-founders. We then explore the relationship between these measures and the relative growth of a founder’s wikis. We suggest hypotheses for future research based on this exploratory analysis.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Transforming Digital Worlds - 13th International Conference, iConference 2018, Proceedings
Editors	Gobinda Chowdhury, Julie McLeod, Val Gillet, Peter Willett
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	99-106
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9783319781044
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78105-1_12
State	Published - 2018
Event	13th International Conference on Transforming Digital Worlds, iConference 2018 - Sheffield, United Kingdom Duration: Mar 25 2018 → Mar 28 2018

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	10766 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Other	13th International Conference on Transforming Digital Worlds, iConference 2018
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Sheffield
Period	3/25/18 → 3/28/18

Funding

Acknowledgments. This work was supported by the Army Research Office (W911NF-14-10686) and the NSF (IIS-1617468, IIS-1617129). The authors also wish to thank the iConference reviewers for their very helpful comments.

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Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Foote, J., & Contractor, N. (2018). The behavior and network position of peer production founders. In G. Chowdhury, J. McLeod, V. Gillet, & P. Willett (Eds.), Transforming Digital Worlds - 13th International Conference, iConference 2018, Proceedings (pp. 99-106). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10766 LNCS). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78105-1_12

Foote, Jeremy ; Contractor, Noshir. / The behavior and network position of peer production founders. Transforming Digital Worlds - 13th International Conference, iConference 2018, Proceedings. editor / Gobinda Chowdhury ; Julie McLeod ; Val Gillet ; Peter Willett. Springer Verlag, 2018. pp. 99-106 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Foote, J & Contractor, N 2018, The behavior and network position of peer production founders. in G Chowdhury, J McLeod, V Gillet & P Willett (eds), Transforming Digital Worlds - 13th International Conference, iConference 2018, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 10766 LNCS, Springer Verlag, pp. 99-106, 13th International Conference on Transforming Digital Worlds, iConference 2018, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 3/25/18. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78105-1_12

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Transforming Digital Worlds - 13th International Conference, iConference 2018, Proceedings. ed. / Gobinda Chowdhury; Julie McLeod; Val Gillet; Peter Willett. Springer Verlag, 2018. p. 99-106 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10766 LNCS).

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Foote J, Contractor N. The behavior and network position of peer production founders. In Chowdhury G, McLeod J, Gillet V, Willett P, editors, Transforming Digital Worlds - 13th International Conference, iConference 2018, Proceedings. Springer Verlag. 2018. p. 99-106. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-78105-1_12

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