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Nice article on emergent roles. One nitpicking question -- in the final sentence of the third paragraph, you state that role embracers have lengthier participation if they move on to a second article. But your definition of a role embracer already presumes that they work on more than one article.
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You are absolutely right that they by definition have to work on multiple articles, thanks for catching that! I checked the paper, and it is referring to the "role embracers". Their primary finding is the longevity of the participation, with a secondary finding that the role embracers will focus on
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To learn more about how contributor motivation affects role behaviour, a survey of a stratified sample of contributors was performed, with 175 valid responses. These surveys aimed at understanding contributor motivations across four dimensions: fun, forming friendships, gaining reputation, and peer
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Knowledge (XXG) (e.g. "copyeditor" or "vandal fighter") are informal and fluent, in contrast to other areas where roles are assigned and static. These types of roles are referred to as âemergent rolesâ in the literature, and a paper titled "On the "How" and "Why"
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This paper builds upon work by some of the same authors at the 2015 CSCW conference, in which they studied functional roles, which are defined by access levels in the system. In the upcoming paper, they use a similar approach and dataset in order to quantify roles and whether contributors take on
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When it comes to longevity, the Role-Article polymaths (7.4% of the contributor pool) are those who continue to stay active in the system for the longest time, with 4% of them being active for at least seven years. Role embracers also sustain participation over multiple years, and will often be
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Knowledge (XXG). The workings of Knowledge (XXG) will be confronted with different epistemological and hermeneutic
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Knowledge (XXG) page is accessed. An additional tab on the Knowledge (XXG) page allows the user to open up a list of teams of local experts associated with the subject matter in the Knowledge (XXG) page. "
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interpretations of what knowledge is, how it works and how it is organised. ... Before concluding, the previous findings will be used to judge the effect of Knowledge (XXG) upon its cultural surroundings."
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