Social Rewarding in Wiki Systems – Motivating the Community

@incollection{citeulike:1842788, 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.}, author = {Hoisl, Bernhard and Aigner, Wolfgang and Miksch, Silvia }, citeulike-article-id = {1842788}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73257-0\_40}, journal = {Online Communities and Social Computing}, keywords = {incentives}, pages = {362--371}, posted-at = {2008-01-22 02:35:44}, priority = {2}, title = {Social Rewarding in Wiki Systems – Motivating the Community}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73257-0\_40}, year = {2007} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:1842788 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1842788 N2 - 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. JF - Online Communities and Social Computing EP - 371 TI - Social Rewarding in Wiki Systems – Motivating the Community SP - 362 KW - incentives AU - Hoisl, Bernhard AU - Aigner, Wolfgang AU - Miksch, Silvia PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73257-0_40 ER -