{"id":119,"date":"2009-05-21T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/copywriting-blog\/how-copywriting-and-other-tasks-are-done-in-wikipedia\/"},"modified":"2012-09-13T02:04:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T06:04:47","slug":"how-copywriting-and-other-tasks-are-done-in-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/copywriting-blog\/how-copywriting-and-other-tasks-are-done-in-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"How copywriting and other tasks are done in Wikipedia:"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting article on research by Stanford students about Wikipedia<\/p>\n

An interesting article on research by Stanford students about Wikipedia. How is work created, assigned, and completed on large-scale,crowd-powered systems like Wikipedia? And what design principles might enable these federated on line systems to be more effective? This paper reports on a qualitative study of work and task practices on Wikipedia. Despite the avail-
\nability of tag-based community-wide task assignment mechanisms, informants reported that self-directed goals, within-topic expertise, and fortuitous discovery are more frequently
\nused than community-tagged tasks. We examine how Wiki-pedia editors organize their actions and the actions of other participants, and what implications this has for understand-
\ning, and building tools for, crowd-powered systems, or any web site where the main force of production comes from a crowd of online participants. From these observations and
\ninsights, we developed WikiTasks, a tool that integrates with Wikipedia and supports both grassroots creation of site-wide tasks and self-selection of personal tasks, accepted from this
\nlarger pool of community tasks.<\/p>\n

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