%0 Book Section %1 citeulike:1842788 %A Hoisl, Bernhard %A Aigner, Wolfgang %A Miksch, Silvia %D 2007 %J Online Communities and Social Computing %K community contribution motivation %P 362--371 %R 10.1007/978-3-540-73257-0\_40 %T Social Rewarding in Wiki Systems – Motivating the Community %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73257-0\_40 %X Online communities have something in common: their success rise and fall with the participation rate of active users. In this paper we focus on social rewarding mechanisms that generate benefits for users in order to achieve a higher contribution rate in a wiki system. In an online community, social rewarding is in the majority of cases based on accentuation of the most active members. As money cannot be used as a motivating factor others like status, power, acceptance, and glory have to be employed. We explain different social rewarding mechanisms which aim to meet these needs of users. Furthermore, we implemented a number of methods within the MediaWiki system, where social rewarding criteria are satisfied by generating a ranking of most active members.

@incollection{citeulike:1842788, abstract = {Online communities have something in common: their success rise and fall with the participation rate of active users. In this paper we focus on social rewarding mechanisms that generate benefits for users in order to achieve a higher contribution rate in a wiki system. In an online community, social rewarding is in the majority of cases based on accentuation of the most active members. As money cannot be used as a motivating factor others like status, power, acceptance, and glory have to be employed. We explain different social rewarding mechanisms which aim to meet these needs of users. Furthermore, we implemented a number of methods within the MediaWiki system, where social rewarding criteria are satisfied by generating a ranking of most active members.}, added-at = {2009-07-01T11:12:30.000+0200}, author = {Hoisl, Bernhard and Aigner, Wolfgang and Miksch, Silvia}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/218c7de1c2bc8bd134da40752b6366734/brusilovsky}, citeulike-article-id = {1842788}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-73257-0\_40}, interhash = {519ccd126bce90df019214ae1cf1beb0}, intrahash = {18c7de1c2bc8bd134da40752b6366734}, journal = {Online Communities and Social Computing}, keywords = {community contribution motivation}, pages = {362--371}, posted-at = {2008-01-23 19:57:35}, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2009-07-01T11:12:36.000+0200}, title = {Social Rewarding in Wiki Systems – Motivating the Community}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73257-0\_40}, year = 2007 }