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Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia
Abstract
Traditional activities change in surprising ways when computer-mediated communication becomes a component of the activity system. In this descriptive study, we leverage two perspectives on social activity to understand the experiences of individuals who became active collaborators in Wikipedia, a prolific, cooperatively-authored online encyclopedia. Legitimate peripheral participation provides a lens for understanding participation in a community as an adaptable process that evolves over time. We use ideas from activity theory as a framework to describe our results. Finally, we describe how activity on the Wikipedia stands in striking contrast to traditional publishing and suggests a new paradigm for collaborative systems.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bryant, S. L., Forte, A., & Bruckman, A.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work - GROUP '05
- Publisher
- ACM Press
- Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 1
- OpenAlex
- W2132764451
- Cited by
- 755
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 55.52
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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