Using 16,068 articles in Wikipedias Medicine Wikiproject, we study the relationship between collaboration and quality. We assess whether certain collaborative patterns are associated with information quality in terms of selfevaluated quality and article viewership. We find that the number of contributors has a curvilinear relationship to information quality, more contributors improving quality but only up to a certain point. Other articles that its collaborators work on also influences the quality of an information artifact, creating an interdependent network of artifacts and contributors. Finally, we see evidence of a recursive relationship between information quality and contributor activity, but that this recursive relationship attenuates over time. A new generation of IT-enabled collaborative toolssuch as wikis, blog communities, and electronic social networks -enable people to share and create knowledge in new and potentially more powerful ways. These tools transcend traditional limitations and enable collective collaboration across conventional organizational boundaries. Nevertheless, the mere presence of these tools does not ensure effective collaboration or the creation of valuable knowledge. People and organizations must use these tools effectively to generate valuable outcomes.
Later, Kane and Ransbotham REF study the relationship between collaboration patterns and the quality of Wikipedia articles by using ordinal regression.
Collaborative Development in Wikipedia
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