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Can Wikipedia Survive Popular Success and Community Decline?

Event Interactive 2010
Format Solo
Organizer Andrew Lih – USC Annenberg School for Communication
Description Wikipedia is a top 10 global web site, but editing activity in the encyclopedia "anyone can edit" has steadily fallen since early 2007. Lih will explain the current crisis with research from the Palo Alto Research Center, Wikipedians and academics on the ability to sustain a lasting content creation community.
Questions
Answered
  1. How did Wikipedia originate?
  2. How reliable and how popular is it?
  3. Who writes and edits Wikipedia, and how does it work?
  4. What challenges has it faced recently regarding its reputation?
  5. What is the evidence that the community is in decline?
  6. How will it maintain its speed and accuracy as it "fills up" and community growth slows down?
  7. What are the obstacles to greater public participation?
  8. How do the experiences of English Wikipedia compare to other editions, like German, Spanish, Japanese?
  9. What possible solutions are there to counteract community slowdown?
  10. If Wikipedia cannot sustain its growth and quality, what possible scenarios might occur?
Level Intermediate
Category Community / Online Community, Interface Design, Open Source, User Experience, User Generated Content
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