Information Quality in Wikipedia: Summary of Research by Stvilia

B. Stvilia らによるinformation quality についての論文　'Information Quality Work Organization in Wikipedia' Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59:6 (2008), 983-1001. における問題意識と方法。

Questions:
(1) How Wikipedia community understand quality?, What are the quality criteria?, What is the quality problem structure?
(2) What are some of the IQ assurance processes
present, including tasks, roles, social arrangements, and strategies used?
(3) How did these quality assurance processes and this understanding of quality evolve?
(4) What are the quality dynamics of different types of information objects,
and can they be modeled?
(5) What are some of the motivations
that make people contribute?
(6) What are some of the IQ intervention strategies used, and in what circumstances?

Methodoligy
(1) case study, based on the data are from English Wikipedia site(Mar.2005-Sep.2007), to get an overview of Wikipedia work patterns and dynamics
(2) manual examination of the process logs and discussion, policy, and user pages, to get a in-depth sight of the formal and informal (active) components of IQ assurance work