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| Skyrocket |
 Fri 17th August 2007, 11:32pm
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A few months back, a Michigan State grad student was soliciting participants for interviews to be used for his Masters thesis. He found some, and the thesis is out now.
It is thesis-ly entitled WIKIPEDIA AS COLLECTIVE ACTION: PERSONAL INCENTIVES AND ENABLING STRUCTURES You can see it at http://www.msu.edu/~john2429/Wikipedia%20a...ve%20Action.pdf |
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| GlassBeadGame |
Sat 18th August 2007, 12:26am
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QUOTE(Skyrocket @ Fri 17th August 2007, 5:32pm)  A few months back, a Michigan State grad student was soliciting participants for interviews to be used for his Masters thesis. He found some, and the thesis is out now. It is thesis-ly entitled WIKIPEDIA AS COLLECTIVE ACTION: PERSONAL INCENTIVES AND ENABLING STRUCTURES You can see it at http://www.msu.edu/~john2429/Wikipedia%20a...ve%20Action.pdf I was one of the subjects Ben interviewed. It was about the time, maybe a couple of weeks before, I started to contribute to WR. I can't say I see anything of myself in the thesis, even keeping in mind that I had yet to develop and sharpen my critique of WP through participation and interaction on WR. I was not one of the two banned users he interviewed. I wonder who they were? |
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| Jonny Cache |
Sat 18th August 2007, 1:30am
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QUOTE(Skyrocket @ Fri 17th August 2007, 7:32pm) A few months back, a Michigan State grad student was soliciting participants for interviews to be used for his Masters thesis. He found some, and the thesis is out now. It is thesis-ly entitled WIKIPEDIA AS COLLECTIVE ACTION : PERSONAL INCENTIVES AND ENABLING STRUCTURES You can see it at Wikipedia as Collective Action.pdf Everybody Writes, Nobody Reads Jonny  |
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| D.A.F. |
Sat 18th August 2007, 2:53am
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WOW!!! GREAT READ!!! Guys you should definitly read this. While it is unjustfully pro-Wikipedian (I doubt he participared in controversial articles the way I did), it is a good material to understand the phenomenon.
I like this quote he provides: Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit - in a world that is limited. Ruin is te destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all. (p. 19 of his thesis) I really think that reading such materials and our more critical vision of Wikipedia could really help us build a better project, the true stuff for which Wikipedia existed for before the entire system corrupted. |
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