A Comparative Language Study: Characterizing Collaboration Models in the EN, FR, and ES Language Editions of Wikipedia

Abstract

Is Wikipedia a standardized platform with a common model of collaboration or is it a set of 288 language editions with distinct collaborative models? In the last 20 years, researchers have analyzed group work that enables the creation of quality articles in the English Wikipedia but these intellectual assumptions are based on solely this anglo-centric perspective. In my work, I aim to understand how prior influential collaboration models from the English Wikipedia generalize across other language editions. At a broader perspective, the implications of this study help uncover the differences between language communities and how they can be supported.