The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System: How Wikipedia's Reaction to Popularity Is Causing Its Decline
Aaron Halfaker,R. Stuart Geiger,Jonathan T. Morgan,John Riedl — The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System: How Wikipedia's Reaction to Popularity Is Causing Its Decline (2013)Aaron Halfaker; R. Stuart Geiger; Jonathan T. Morgan; John Riedl · 2013 · Article · abstractEstablishedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0515 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: Wikipedia's self-governance · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“Halfaker and colleagues found that Wikipedia's pool of active contributors had been declining for years and identified restrictive quality control and the algorithmic tools used to reject contributions as key causes of falling newcomer retention.”
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