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What Motivates Wikipedians?

By Oded Nov
Communications of the ACM, November 2007, Vol. 50 No. 11, Pages 60-64
10.1145/1297797.1297798
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In order to increase and enhance user-generated content contributions, it is important to understand the factors that lead people to freely share their time and knowledge with others.

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