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In 2007 the Information Dynamics Laboratory, a part of Hewlett-Packard Labs, studied the correlation between [http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/wikipedia/index.html Cooperation and quality in Wikipedia]. Authors Dennis Wilkinson and Bernardo Huberman concluded, after examining all 50 million edits to the 1.5 million English-language Wikipedia articles, | In 2007 the Information Dynamics Laboratory, a part of Hewlett-Packard Labs, studied the correlation between [http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/wikipedia/index.html Cooperation and quality in Wikipedia]. Authors Dennis Wilkinson and Bernardo Huberman concluded, after examining all 50 million edits to the 1.5 million English-language Wikipedia articles, | ||
:"...that article quality is indeed correlated with both number of edits and number of distinct editors, and intensity of cooperative behavior, as compared to other articles of similar visibility and age. This is significant because in other domains, fruitful cooperation has proven to be difficult to sustain as the size of the collaboration increases. Furthermore, in spite of the vagaries of human behavior, we show that Wikipedia articles accrete edits according to a simple stochastic mechanism in which edits beget edits. Topics of high interest or relevance are thus naturally brought to the forefront of quality."<ref>Aaron Swartz, ''Raw Thought: Who Writes Wikipedia?'', http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia accessed 4 Mar 2008. </ref> | |||
:"...that article quality is indeed correlated with both number of edits and number of distinct editors, and intensity of cooperative behavior, as compared to other articles of similar visibility and age. This is significant because in other domains, fruitful cooperation has proven to be difficult to sustain as the size of the collaboration increases. Furthermore, in spite of the vagaries of human behavior, we show that Wikipedia articles accrete edits according to a simple stochastic mechanism in which edits beget edits. Topics of high interest or relevance are thus naturally brought to the forefront of quality."<ref>Aaron Swartz, ''Raw Thought: Who Writes Wikipedia?'', http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia accessed 4 Mar 2008. </ref> | |||
So how does a community of volunteer writers produce accurate content? One way to look at this is to remember how Linux and Firefox were developed. Both were built by volunteer communities. Linux is an operating system used by the world’s largest corporations to serve out their Websites. If the site goes down, these companies lose millions. They choose Linux because it’s so stable. Linux is simply superior to operating systems built by some of the world’s best-known software companies. | So how does a community of volunteer writers produce accurate content? One way to look at this is to remember how Linux and Firefox were developed. Both were built by volunteer communities. Linux is an operating system used by the world’s largest corporations to serve out their Websites. If the site goes down, these companies lose millions. They choose Linux because it’s so stable. Linux is simply superior to operating systems built by some of the world’s best-known software companies. | ||
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