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 …

Effective socialization of new contributors is vital for the long-term sustainability of open
collaboration projects. Previous research has identified many common barriers to …

The CSCW community has a history of designing, implementing, and evaluating novel social
interactions in technology, but the process requires significant technical effort for uncertain …

Why do some peer production projects do a better job at engaging potential contributors
than others? We address this question by comparing three Indian language Wikipedias …

Hundreds of millions of people learn something new online every day. Simultaneously, the
study of online education has blossomed within the human computer interaction community …

Peer production platforms like Wikipedia commonly suffer from content gaps. Prior research
suggests recommender systems can help solve this problem, by guiding editors towards …

For peer production communities to be sustainable, they must attract and retain new
contributors. Studies have identified social and technical barriers to entry and discovered …

Twenty years ago, Wikipedia's founders could not have dreamed they were creating the
most important laboratory for social scientific and computing research in history. And yet, that …

Much early communication research was inspired by systems theory. This approach
emphasizes that individuals and groups use communication to interact with and respond to …

Attracting and retaining newcomers is critical and challenging for online production
communities such as Wikipedia, both because volunteers need specialized training and are …