Abstract
Organizers of online groups often struggle to recruit members who can most effectively carry out the group's activities and remain part of the group over time. In a study of a sample of 30,000 new editors belonging to 1,054 English WikiProjects, we empirically examine the effects of generalized prior work-productivity experience (measured by overall prior article edits), prior leadership experience (measured by overall prior project edits), and localized prior work-productivity experience (measured by pre-joining article edits on a project) on early retention and productivity. We find that (1)generalized prior work-productivity experience is positively associated with retention, but negatively associated with productivity (2) prior leadership experience is negatively associated with both retention and productivity, and (3) localized prior workproductivity experience is positively associated with both retention and productivity within that focal project. We then discuss implications to inform the designs of early interventions aimed at group success.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
Subtitle of host publication | Engage with CHI |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450356206, 9781450356213 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 20 2018 |
Event | 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018 - Montreal, Canada Duration: Apr 21 2018 → Apr 26 2018 |
Publication series
Name | Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings |
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Volume | 2018-April |
Other
Other | 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018 |
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Country/Territory | Canada |
City | Montreal |
Period | 4/21/18 → 4/26/18 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2018 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).
Keywords
- Learning transfer
- Newcomers
- Online communities
- Online groups
- Peer production
- Prior experience
- Productivity
- Resocialization
- Retention
- Subgroups
- WikiProjects
- Wikipedia
- Withdrawal