What motivates Wikipedians?

By Oded Nov. CACM, 2007

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Subfields: Communication, Computer Science Applications

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Motivations to participate in online communities (2010, background): “Nov [19] looked at why active participants of Wikipedia chose to contribute their time to the site.”
Voluntary Engagement in an Open Web-Based Encyclopedia: Wikipedians and Why They Do It (2009, result): “…findings are consistent with weak or lacking zero-order correlations between Wikipedia engagement and F/OSS ideology or personal values reported by Nov (2007), and might point to a threshold process in which potential contributors have to agree to the general goals of Wikipedia (as measured by…”
Rise of the expert amateur: DIY projects, communities, and cultures (2010, background): “A survey by Nov classifies motivations of contributors into six categories, suggesting that fun and ideology (“information should be free”) are the top two motivations of contributors [30].”
Exploring motivations for contributing to open source initiatives: The roles of contribution context and personal values (2008, methodology): “Nov / Computers in Human Behavior 24 (2008) 2055–2073”
Motivations for sharing information and social support in social media: A comparative analysis of Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, YouTube, and Flickr (2015, background): “(cid:129) Learning: Learning is an important motivation which enables people to actively participate in a variety of activities in social media (Nam et al., 2009; Nov, 2007; Rafaeli et al., 2005).”
Redpin - adaptive, zero-configuration indoor localization through user collaboration (2008, background): “Recent research in this area has in addition shown that people contribute because of ideological reasons and even more so, because it is fun [5, 25].”
Building a bird recognition app and large scale dataset with citizen scientists: The fine print in fine-grained dataset collection (2015, background): “When building a large, fine-grained dataset they can be utilized to curate images with a level of accuracy that would be extremely costly with paid crowd workers, see Section 5.”
The sharing economy: Why people participate in collaborative consumption (2016, neutral): “In terms of intrinsic motivation, software developers contribute to open-source projects as a result of enjoyment and a feeling of competence (Lakhani & Wolf, 2005; Nov, 2007; Roberts et al., 2006; Wasko & Faraj, 2000; see also Ryan & Deci 2000).”
The impact of membership overlap on the survival of online communities (2013, background): “The benefits include having enjoyment and fun (Lakhani and Wolf 2003, Nov 2007), pursuing beliefs and values shared with other people (Steward& Gosain 2006), expressing humanitarian concerns for others (Nov 2007), learning (Palloff and Pratt 1999), developing careers (Lakhani and Wolf 2003), and…”
Quizz: targeted crowdsourcing with a billion (potential) users (2014, background): “Users who are motivated by monetary rewards are often different than the users who are unpaid and motivated by other means [22, 28, 40].”
Understanding user participation in online communities: A systematic literature review of empirical studies (2015, background): “Nov (2007) explored types of motivations in relation to the volume of contributions to Wikipedia and found that top motivations for volunteering were fun and ideology.”
Suggesting frameworks of citizen-sourcing via Government 2.0 (2012, background): “…to hobbies) and altruism (voluntary contribution to society) are the two primary motives for wikivism and open-source participation (Bonaccorsi & Rossi, 2004; Ghosh, 1998; Hars & Ou, 2002; Hertel et al., 2003; Moore & Serva, 2007; Nov, 2007; Peddibhotla & Subramani, 2007; Rafaeli & Ariel, 2008).”
Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia (2020, neutral): “A substantial amount of prior work has focused on understanding user engagement with Wikipedia from the point of view of the editor community [2, 41, 43, 68].”
Wikipedia (2014, background): “C; Hars and Ou 2002, 27–28; Kuznetsov 2006, 6; Nov 2007, 63; Rafaeli 2005).”