Dear Finn, Thank you so much for the literature recommendations regarding users' motivations to contribute to Wikipedia. I was able to find some of these articles on my own, but many I had missed and will incorporate into my literature review.
I should probably clarify what I meant when I said that "extant literature is lacking". I in no way meant to dismiss the work that has been done in this field (which is more extensive than I originally realized). Instead, I was referring to the inconclusive results some of the articles I've read have found. In many of the articles I've referenced, researchers look at motivation from an intrinsic/extrinsic motivation perspective, which is a good way of measuring motivation, but maybe does not explore other important facets. Thanks again for the literature! I could not complete this project without the help of you and others in the Wikipedia community. Best, Audrey On Mar 20, 2012, at 8:52 AM, Finn Årup Nielsen wrote: > Dear Audrey, > > > On 03/19/2012 08:43 PM, emijrp wrote: > >> On WikiPapers we have some publications about that subject >> http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/Motivations > > Regarding: "Extant literature on this topic is lacking". > > As you see Emijrp has collected 10 papers categorized under motivation in his > WikiPapers, and in the recently announce Wikilit group we have also many > papers on motivation (mostly collected by the four other members of the > Wikilit group), see e.g., this category with 30 papers: > > http://wikilit.referata.com/wiki/Category:Contributor_motivation > > Also the parent category: > > http://wikilit.referata.com/wiki/Category:Antecedents_of_participation > > 52 papers are under this category. There is room for an entire review on its > own. :-) > > > Cheers, > Finn > > >> 2012/3/17 Audrey Abeyta <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> >> Hello all, >> >> I am an undergraduate student at the University of California, Santa >> Barbara, conducting a senior honors thesis on users' motivations to >> contribute to Wikipedia. A more detailed description of the project >> can be read here: >> >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Motivations_to_Contribute_to_Wikipedia >> >> My project's success is dependent on the valuable responses of >> Wikipedia contributors, which I am collecting through an online >> questionnaire. This brief questionnaire is completely anonymous and >> should take approximately 10 minutes to complete. If any of you are >> willing to complete this questionnaire, it can be accessed here: >> https://us1.us.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8ixU9RkozemzC4s. >> >> Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns. >> >> Thank you in advance for your help! >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Audrey Abeyta >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
