massive collaborative content development. However, many of the mechanisms and procedures that it uses are still unknown in de- tail. For instance, how equal (or unequal) are the contributions to it has been discussed in the last years, with no conclusive results. In this paper, we study exactly that aspect by using Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients, very well known instruments to economists. We analyze the trends in the inequality of distributions for the ten biggest language editions of Wikipedia, and their evolution over time. As a result, we have found large differences in the number of contributions by different authors (something also observed in free, open source software development), and a trend to stable patterns of inequality in the long run.
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Welcome to IEEE Xplore 2.0: On the Inequality of Contributions to Wikipedia
%0 Conference Paper
%1 Ortega:2008
%A Ortega, Felipe
%A Gonzalez-Barahona, Jesus M.
%A Robles, Gregorio
%B Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Proceedings of the 41st Annual
%D 2008
%K research.web20.communities study.web20
%P 304-304
%R 10.1109/HICSS.2008.333
%T On the Inequality of Contributions to Wikipedia
%U http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=4438696&arnumber=4439009&count=502&index=312
%X massive collaborative content development. However, many of the mechanisms and procedures that it uses are still unknown in de- tail. For instance, how equal (or unequal) are the contributions to it has been discussed in the last years, with no conclusive results. In this paper, we study exactly that aspect by using Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients, very well known instruments to economists. We analyze the trends in the inequality of distributions for the ten biggest language editions of Wikipedia, and their evolution over time. As a result, we have found large differences in the number of contributions by different authors (something also observed in free, open source software development), and a trend to stable patterns of inequality in the long run.
%@ 978-0-7695-3075-8
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abstract = {massive collaborative content development. However, many of the mechanisms and procedures that it uses are still unknown in de- tail. For instance, how equal (or unequal) are the contributions to it has been discussed in the last years, with no conclusive results. In this paper, we study exactly that aspect by using Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients, very well known instruments to economists. We analyze the trends in the inequality of distributions for the ten biggest language editions of Wikipedia, and their evolution over time. As a result, we have found large differences in the number of contributions by different authors (something also observed in free, open source software development), and a trend to stable patterns of inequality in the long run.},
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author = {Ortega, Felipe and Gonzalez-Barahona, Jesus M. and Robles, Gregorio},
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booktitle = {Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Proceedings of the 41st Annual},
description = {Welcome to IEEE Xplore 2.0: On the Inequality of Contributions to Wikipedia},
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timestamp = {2009-06-25T15:59:15.000+0200},
title = {On the Inequality of Contributions to Wikipedia},
url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=4438696&arnumber=4439009&count=502&index=312},
year = 2008
}