@article{sydow-diWi-jiis16,
author = {Sydow, Marcin and Baraniak, Katarzyna and Teisseyre, Pawe{\l}},
title = {"Diversity of editors and teams versus quality of cooperative work: experiments on {W}ikipedia"},
journal = {Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (on-line)},
publisher = {Springer},
pages = {601--632},
volume = 48,
issue = 3,
abstract="We study whether and how the diversity of editors and teams
affects the quality of work in a virtual cooperative work environment on
the Wikipedia example. We propose a measure of interests diversity of an
editor and some measures of team diversity in terms of members' interests
and experience. Statistical and machine learning methods are used to
investigate the dependency between diversity and work quality. The
presented experimental results confirm our hypothesis that interest
diversity of a single editors and team diversity are positively related to
the quality of their work. Interestingly, some of our experiments also
indicate that diversity may be more important than such attributes as
productivity of an editor or size or experience of the team. Our
experimental results demonstrate that it is possible to predict work
quality based on diversity which is an additional statistical signal that
diversity is correlated with work quality.",
issn="1573-7675",
doi="10.1007/s10844-016-0428-1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10844-016-0428-1",
year = {2016}
}