Wikipedia has been the poster child for large-scale online open collaboration while few
other online open collaboration initiatives have achieved similar success. How did …

Increasing demands for fact-checking have led to a growing interest in developing systems
and tools to automate the fact-checking process. However, such systems are limited in …

The collective intelligence of crowds could potentially be harnessed to address global
challenges, such as biodiversity loss and species' extinction. For wisdom to emerge from the …

While the large majority of published research on online communities consists of analyses
conducted entirely within individual communities, this chapter argues for a population-based …

English Wikipedia has long been an important data source for much research and natural
language machine learning modeling. The growth of non-English language editions of …

We report a study of Wikipedia in which we use a mixed-methods approach to understand
how participation in specialized workgroups called WikiProjects has changed over the life of …

By definition, people are reticent or even unwilling to talk about taboo subjects. Because
subjects like sexuality, health, and violence are taboo in most cultures, important information …

The internet has enabled collaborations at a scale never before possible, but the best
practices for organizing such large collaborations are still not clear. Wikipedia is a visible …

Fledgling online communities often hope to achieve critical mass so that the community
becomes sustainable. This concept however is not well understood. At what point does a …

The success of wikis on the Internet has led organisations to introduce wikis within corporate
settings for multiple purposes. However, despite the popularity of wikis in the public and …