The social embeddedness of peer production: A comparative qualitative analysis of three Indian language Wikipedia editions
The social embeddedness of peer production: A comparative qualitative analysis of three Indian language Wikipedia editions
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10.1145/3491102.3501832
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2022-04
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Sejal Khatri;Aaron Shaw;Sayamindu Dasgupta;Benjamin Mako Hill
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作者：
Sejal Khatri;Aaron Shaw;Sayamindu Dasgupta;Benjamin Mako Hill
为什么有些同行生产项目在吸引潜在贡献者方面比其他项目做得更好？我们通过比较三个印度语言维基百科，即马拉雅拉姆语，马拉地语和卡纳达语来解决这个问题。我们发现，尽管这三个项目有着共同的目标、技术基础设施和类似的挑战，但马拉雅拉姆语维基百科的社区以比其他语言更高的速度吸引了语言使用者。通过对这三个项目的18名社区参与者的采访进行扎根理论分析，我们发现马拉雅拉姆语社区参与式治理和自由/开源软件的经验支持了贡献者的高度参与。与直觉相反的是，我们发现，旨在增加马拉地和卡纳达社区参与的财政资源阻碍了这些社区的发展。我们的研究结果强调了社会和文化背景在同行生产社区轨迹中的重要性。
Why do some peer production projects do a better job at engaging potential contributors than others? We address this question by comparing three Indian language Wikipedias, namely, Malayalam, Marathi, and Kannada. We found that although the three projects share goals, technological infrastructure, and a similar set of challenges, Malayalam Wikipedia’s community engages language speakers in contributing at a much higher rate than the others. Drawing from a grounded theory analysis of interviews with 18 community participants from the three projects, we found that experience with participatory governance and free/open-source software in the Malayalam community supported high engagement of contributors. Counterintuitively, we found that financial resources intended to increase participation in the Marathi and Kannada communities hindered the growth of these communities. Our findings underscore the importance of social and cultural context in the trajectories of peer production communities.