Experimental study of informal rewards in peer production.

We test the effects of informal rewards in online peer production. Using a randomized, experimental design, we assigned editing awards or "barnstars" to a subset of the 1% most productive Wikipedia contributors. Comparison with the control group shows that receiving a barnstar increases pr...

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Main Authors: Michael Restivo, Arnout van de Rijt
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/efc89d60a74943a5b81c9aae8c4d12f7
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