Starting Online Communities: Motivations and Goals of Wiki Founders
Starting Online Communities: Motivations and Goals of Wiki Founders
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创办在线社区：维基创始人的动机和目标
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2017
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Aaron Shaw
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Jeremy Foote;Darren Gergle;Aaron Shaw
为什么人们会创建新的在线社区？之前的研究研究了是什么帮助社区发展，是什么激励了贡献者，但人们创建新社区的原因尚不清楚。我们展示了对在线维基托管网站Wikia.com上300多位新社区创始人的调查结果。我们分析了wiki创建者的动机和目标，发现创建者创建wiki的原因和定义他们成功的方式各不相同。许多创始人认为他们的社区只涉及狭窄的主题，既不寻求也不期望有一大群贡献者。我们还发现，目标不同的创始人构建社区的方式也不同。我们认为，社区平台设计师可以创建更有效地支持创始人多样化目标的界面。
Why do people start new online communities? Previous research has studied what helps communities to grow and what motivates contributors, but the reasons that people create new communities in the first place remain unclear. We present the results of a survey of over 300 founders of new communities on the online wiki hosting site Wikia.com. We analyze the motivations and goals of wiki creators, finding that founders have diverse reasons for starting wikis and diverse ways of defining their success. Many founders see their communities as occupying narrow topics, and neither seek nor expect a large group of contributors. We also find that founders with differing goals approach community building differently. We argue that community platform designers can create interfaces that support the diverse goals of founders more effectively.