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.
| Originalsprache | Englisch |
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| Titel des Sammelwerks | Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing (OCSC) |
| Herausgeber*innen | D. Schuler |
| Erscheinungsort | Berlin |
| Verlag | Springer |
| Seiten | 362 - 371 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-540-73256-3 |
| Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - 1 Sept. 2007 |
Österreichische Systematik der Wissenschaftszweige (ÖFOS)
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