Experimental Study of Informal Rewards in Peer Production

被引：37

作者：

Restivo, Michael ^{[1
]}

van de Rijt, Arnout ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Sociol, New York, NY USA

来源：

PLOS ONE | 2012年 / 7卷 / 03期

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D O I：

10.1371/journal.pone.0034358

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

We test the effects of informal rewards in online peer production. Using a randomized, experimental design, we assigned editing awards or "barnstars'' to a subset of the 1% most productive Wikipedia contributors. Comparison with the control group shows that receiving a barnstar increases productivity by 60% and makes contributors six times more likely to receive additional barnstars from other community members, revealing that informal rewards significantly impact individual effort.

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