Revisiting "The Rise and Decline" in a Population of Peer Production Projects
Revisiting "The Rise and Decline" in a Population of Peer Production Projects
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重温同行制作项目中的“兴衰”
DOI：
10.1145/3173574.3173929
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2018
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通讯作者：
Benjamin Mako Hill
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作者：
Nathan TeBlunthuis;Aaron Shaw;Benjamin Mako Hill
在诸如维基百科这样的大型同侪生产系统中发现的增长和稳定模式是否也出现在其他社区呢？本研究评估了哈夫克等人2013年那篇有影响力的论文《一个开放协作系统的兴衰》的普遍性。我们使用来自维基媒体（Wikia）的数百个活跃的同侪生产维基的数据集，重复了对与新成员留存和规范巩固相关的若干理论的测试。我们重现了哈夫克及其同事的部分研究结果（我们能够测试的部分），比较了我们模型的估计符号和量级。我们的结果支持了哈夫克等人观点的外部有效性，即质量控制系统可能会通过阻碍新的贡献者来限制同侪生产社区的增长，并且规范往往会随着时间的推移而变得根深蒂固。
Do patterns of growth and stabilization found in large peer production systems such as Wikipedia occur in other communities? This study assesses the generalizability of Halfaker et al.'s influential 2013 paper on "The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System." We replicate its tests of several theories related to newcomer retention and norm entrenchment using a dataset of hundreds of active peer production wikis from Wikia. We reproduce the subset of the findings from Halfaker and colleagues that we are able to test, comparing both the estimated signs and magnitudes of our models. Our results support the external validity of Halfaker et al.'s claims that quality control systems may limit the growth of peer production communities by deterring new contributors and that norms tend to become entrenched over time.