TY - GEN
T1 - Lurking? Cyclopaths? A quantitative lifecycle analysis of user behavior in a geowiki
AU - Panciera, Katherine
AU - Priedhorsky, Reid
AU - Erickson, Thomas
AU - Terveen, Loren G
PY - 2010/7/1
Y1 - 2010/7/1
N2 - Online communities produce rich behavioral datasets, e.g., Usenet news conversations, Wikipedia edits, and Facebook friend networks. Analysis of such datasets yields important insights (like the "long tail" of user participation) and suggests novel design interventions (like targeting users with personalized opportunities and work requests). However, certain key user data typically are unavailable, specifically viewing, pre-registration, and non-logged-in activity. The absence of data makes some questions hard to answer; ac- cess to it can strengthen, extend, or cast doubt on previous results. We report on analysis of user behavior in Cyclopath, a geographic wiki and route-finder for bicyclists. With access to viewing and non-logged-in activity data, we were able to: (a) replicate and extend prior work on user lifecycles in Wikipedia, (b) bring to light some pre-registration activity, thus testing for the presence of "educational lurking," and (c) demonstrate the locality of geographic activity and how editing and viewing are geographically correlated.
AB - Online communities produce rich behavioral datasets, e.g., Usenet news conversations, Wikipedia edits, and Facebook friend networks. Analysis of such datasets yields important insights (like the "long tail" of user participation) and suggests novel design interventions (like targeting users with personalized opportunities and work requests). However, certain key user data typically are unavailable, specifically viewing, pre-registration, and non-logged-in activity. The absence of data makes some questions hard to answer; ac- cess to it can strengthen, extend, or cast doubt on previous results. We report on analysis of user behavior in Cyclopath, a geographic wiki and route-finder for bicyclists. With access to viewing and non-logged-in activity data, we were able to: (a) replicate and extend prior work on user lifecycles in Wikipedia, (b) bring to light some pre-registration activity, thus testing for the presence of "educational lurking," and (c) demonstrate the locality of geographic activity and how editing and viewing are geographically correlated.
KW - geographic volunteer work
KW - geowiki
KW - lurking
KW - open content
KW - volunteered geographic information
KW - wiki
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U2 - 10.1145/1753326.1753615
DO - 10.1145/1753326.1753615
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77953977998
SN - 9781605589299
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 1917
EP - 1926
BT - CHI 2010 - The 28th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings
T2 - 28th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2010
Y2 - 10 April 2010 through 15 April 2010
ER -