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On the Inequality of Contributions to Wikipedia

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Felipe Ortega,

Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona,

Gregorio RoblesAuthors Info & Claims

HICSS '08: Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2008.333

Published: 07 January 2008 Publication History

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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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On the Inequality of Contributions to Wikipedia
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
      2. Software management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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