Hoisl, Bernhard, Aigner, Wolfgang, Miksch, Silvia. 2007. Social Rewarding in Wiki Systems - Motivating the Community. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing (OCSC), Hrsg. D. Schuler, 362-371. Berlin: Springer.
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Abstract
Online communities have something in common: their success rise and fall with the participation rate of active users. In this paper we focus on social rewarding mechanisms that generate benefits for users in order to achieve a higher contribution rate in a wiki system. In an online community, social rewarding is in the majority of cases based on accentuation of the most active members. As money cannot be used as a motivating factor others like status, power, acceptance, and glory have to be employed. We explain different social rewarding mechanisms which aim to meet these needs of users. Furthermore, we implemented a number of methods within the MediaWiki system, where social rewarding criteria are satisfied by generating a ranking of most active members.
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Contribution to conference proceedings |
Language | English |
Title | Social Rewarding in Wiki Systems - Motivating the Community |
Title of whole publication | Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing (OCSC) |
Editor | D. Schuler |
Page from | 362 |
Page to | 371 |
Location | Berlin |
Publisher | Springer |
Year | 2007 |
ISBN | 978-3-540-73256-3 |
URL | http://ieg.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/projects/SocialRewarding/HCIISocialRewarding.pdf |
Associations
- People
- Hoisl, Bernhard (Former researcher)
- External
- Aigner, Wolfgang (Department für Information und Knowledge Engineering, Donau-Universität Krems, Austria)
- Miksch, Silvia (Department für Information und Knowledge Engineering, Donau-Universität Krems, Austria)
- Organization
- Institute for Information Systems and New Media IN (Details)
- Research areas (ÖSTAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 1105 Computer software (Details)
- 1108 Informatics (Details)
- 1140 Software engineering (Details)
- 1156 Web engineering (Details)