What motivates Wikipedians?
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- 1 November 2007
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 50 (11) , 60-64
- https://doi.org/10.1145/1297797.1297798
Abstract
In order to increase and enhance user-generated content contributions, it is important to understand the factors that lead people to freely share their time and knowledge with others.Keywords
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