Wikibugs: the practice of template messages in open content collections

Loris Gaio, Alessandro Rossi (), Matthijs den Besten and Jean-Michel Dalle

No 904, DISA Working Papers from Department of Computer and Management Sciences, University of Trento, Italy

Abstract: In the paper we investigate an organizational practice meant to increase the quality of commons-based peer production: the use of template messages in wiki collections to highlight editorial bugs and call for intervention. In the context of SimpleWiki, an online encyclopedia of the Wikipedia family, we focus on {complex}, a template which is used to flag articles disregarding the overall goals of simplicity and readability. We characterize how this template is placed on and removed from articles and we use survival analysis to study the emergence and successful treatment of these bugs in the collection.

Keywords: commons based peer production; wikipedia; wiki; survival analysis; quality; bug fixing; template messages; coordination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L86 M15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2009-07, Revised 2009-07-29
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