Social Rewarding in Wiki Systems

Online communities have something in common: theirsuccess rise and fall with the participation rate ofactive users. This book focuses on social rewardingmechanisms that generate benefits for users in orderto achieve a higher contribution rate in a wikisystem (e.g., like Wikipedia). In an onlinecommunity, social rewarding is in the majority ofcases based on accentuation of the most activemembers. As money cannot be used as a motivatingfactor others, such as status, power, acceptance, andglory have to be employed. Different social rewardingmechanisms are explained which aim to meet theseneeds of users. Furthermore, four methods wereimplemented within the MediaWiki system, where socialrewarding criteria are satisfied by generating aranking of the most active members. These techniquesrefer to used references in an article, user votes,article visits, and user recommendations. Inaddition, this book also focuses on the calculationalgorithm the ranking of authors is based on, theimplementation process of the development, and theuse of adequate information visualization techniquesto present results.