Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2015
The Rise and Fall of an Online Project. Is Bureaucracy Killing Efficiency in Open Knowledge Production?
Nicolas Jullien (1, 2, 3) , Kevin Crowston (4) , Felipe Ortega (5)
1 LUSSI - Département Logique des Usages, Sciences sociales et Sciences de l'Information (Technopôle Brest Iroise - CS 83818 - 29238 BREST Cedex 3 - France)
"> LUSSI - Département Logique des Usages, Sciences sociales et Sciences de l'Information
2 ICI - Laboratoire Information, Coordination, Incitations (12 rue de Kergoat CS 93837 29238 Brest cedex 3 - France)
"> ICI - Laboratoire Information, Coordination, Incitations
3 MARSOUIN - Môle Armoricain de Recherche sur la SOciété de l'information et des usages d'INternet (Technopôle Brest Iroise - CS 83818 - 29238 BREST Cedex 3 - France)
"> MARSOUIN - Môle Armoricain de Recherche sur la SOciété de l'information et des usages d'INternet
4 iSchool - Syracuse University School of Information Studies (343 Hinds Hall, Syracuse, NY 13210 - États-Unis)
"> iSchool - Syracuse University School of Information Studies
5 URJC - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos = Rey Juan Carlos University (Calle Tulipán s/n. 28933 Móstoles. Madrid - Espagne) "> URJC - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos = Rey Juan Carlos University

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In this article we ask whether it is possible to evaluate the efficiency of an online knowledge production project to determine its position in the life-cycle of projects and to identify factors that affect efficiency. To assess efficiency, we used the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) modelling methodology, applying it to data from Wikipedia, studying more than 30 Wikipedia language projects over three years. We showed that if the main Wikipedia projects were indeed less efficient that smaller ones, corrected by the decreasing return to scale phenomenon, they were quite as efficient as the other projects.

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Nicolas Jullien, Kevin Crowston, Felipe Ortega. The Rise and Fall of an Online Project. Is Bureaucracy Killing Efficiency in Open Knowledge Production?. OpenSym 2015 : 11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, Aug 2015, St Francisco, United States. ⟨hal-01192596⟩

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