Voluntary Engagement in an Open Web-Based Encyclopedia: Wikipedians and Why They Do It

By Joachim Schroer, Guido Hertel. 2009

92 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Computer Science Applications

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/3e0a52d690bddc09d2479a296ff84c873fc7cc24

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In Communication

1. Daniel J. Veit
2. Nicolas Kaufmann
3. Adam M. Grant
4. Thimo Schulze

In Computer Science Applications

1. Daniel J. Veit
2. Nicolas Kaufmann
3. Adam M. Grant
4. Thimo Schulze

Citations in the corpus

• Giving Time, Time After Time: Work Design and Sustained Employee Participation in Corporate Volunteering (2012, background): “Research has shown that volunteering projects Participation in Corporate Volunteering 20 vary in terms of task significance, identity, autonomy, and feedback (Bartel et al., 2001; Lester et al., 2005; Pajo & Lee, in press; Schroer & Hertel, 2009).”
• More than fun and money. Worker Motivation in Crowdsourcing - A Study on Mechanical Turk (2011, background): “…in related areas like open source software (e.g. Lakhani and Wolf (2005)) and specific domains of crowdsourcing like user generated content (e.g. Schroer and Hertel (2009) about Wikipedia) or competitions (Brabham, 2008; Leimeister, Huber, Bretschneider, and Krcmar, 2009), we are not aware of…”