{"id":260,"date":"2005-12-07T12:31:03","date_gmt":"2005-12-07T16:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/12\/07\/good-samaritans-the-strength-of-te"},"modified":"2005-12-07T12:31:03","modified_gmt":"2005-12-07T16:31:03","slug":"good-samaritans-the-strength-of-ten-normal-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/12\/07\/good-samaritans-the-strength-of-ten-normal-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Samaritans : the strength of ten normal men?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1155'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been some hubbub lately about the usefulness of anonymous<br \/>\ncontributions to the information commons.&nbsp; In particular, Monday<br \/>\nsaw a somewhat ad-hoc test of the effect on forcing account-creation on<br \/>\nthe quality of contributions to the* English Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>I have some statistics of my own to add about that particular<br \/>\nexperiment.&nbsp; However, for the moment I would simply like to point<br \/>\nto a lovely <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Wikipedia contribution analysis<\/span>, &#8220;Explaining Quality in Internet Collective Goods: Zealots and Good Samaritans in the case of Wikipedia&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/iandeseminar\/Papers\/Fall2005\/anthony.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) by researcher <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Denise Anthony<\/span>, who presented it this past Monday at MIT.&nbsp; Her research suggested to her that &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">the highest quality contributions come from the vast numbers of anonymous &#8216;Good Samaritans&#8217; who contribute infrequently<\/span>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/iandeseminar\/Papers\/Fall2005\/anthony.pdf\n<\/div>\n<p>* Note : the direct article is appropriate here because of the<br \/>\n&#8220;English&#8221; adjective before Wikipedia. For more detail, see my old reply<br \/>\nto JDL at Joho&#8217;s house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been some hubbub lately about the usefulness of anonymous contributions to the information commons.&nbsp; In particular, Monday saw a somewhat ad-hoc test of the effect on forcing account-creation on the quality of contributions to the* English Wikipedia. I have some statistics of my own to add about that particular experiment.&nbsp; However, for the moment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metrics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}