Title :
Innovating Collaborative Content Creation: The Role of Altruism and Wiki Technology
Author :
Wagner, Christian ; Prasarnphanich, Pattarawan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Syst., City Univ. of Hong Kong
Abstract :
Wikipedia demonstrates the feasibility and success of an innovative form of content creation, namely openly shared, collaborative writing. This research sought to understand the success of Wikipedia as a collaborative model, considering both technology and participant motivations. The research finds that while participants have both individualistic and collaborative motives, collaborative (altruistic) motives dominate. The collaboration model differs from that of open source software development, which is less inclusive with respect to participation, and more "selfish" with respect to contributor motives. The success of the Wikipedia model appears to be related to wiki technology and the "wiki way" of collaboration
Keywords :
Internet; groupware; public domain software; software engineering; Wikipedia model; collaborative altruistic motive; collaborative content creation; collaborative writing; open source software development; Collaborative software; Computer hacking; Employment; Encyclopedias; Information resources; Information systems; International collaboration; Open source software; Wikipedia; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 2007. HICSS 2007. 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Waikoloa, HI
Electronic_ISBN :
1530-1605
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2007.277