TY - GEN
T1 - The behavior and network position of peer production founders
AU - Foote, Jeremy
AU - Contractor, Noshir
N1 - Funding Information:
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.
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-78105-1_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-78105-1_12
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85044413945
SN - 9783319781044
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 99
EP - 106
BT - Transforming Digital Worlds - 13th International Conference, iConference 2018, Proceedings
A2 - Chowdhury, Gobinda
A2 - McLeod, Julie
A2 - Gillet, Val
A2 - Willett, Peter
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 13th International Conference on Transforming Digital Worlds, iConference 2018
Y2 - 25 March 2018 through 28 March 2018
ER -