90-9-1 Theory - Wiki Patterns - The Diigo Meta page

• 11 Aug 09
  

  dean groom

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  Richard Fahey

  wiki community 90-9-1 contributions

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  Phil Ridout

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  John Anthony Hartman

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• 30 Jan 09
  

  Jane Net

  at all) and a few members of the community to account for a disproportionately large amount of the content and activity.
  
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• 12 Jan 09
  

  Marvin Smith

  90-9-1 community wiki

• 26 Dec 08
  

  Michel Bauwens

  The 90-9-1 theory explains the percentage of a wiki's participation, breaking it down as readers being the highest percent, with minor contributors composing the 9 percent and enthusiastic and active contributors composing 1 percent of the total participa

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• 08 Jun 08
  

  K Wagner

  90-9-1 Jakob Nielsen wikis

• 20 May 08
  

  Christy Tucker

  Wiki Patterns explanation of participation in a wiki with the 90-9-1 theory. This includes some of the statistics of participation for Wikipedia and other community sites.

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  • The 90-9-1 theory explains the percentage of a wiki's participation, breaking it down as readers being the highest percent, with minor contributors composing the 9 percent and enthusiastic and active contributors composing 1 percent of the total participants in a wiki.
  • While it is impossible to overcome this type of human behaviour, it is possible to change the participation distribution (i.e 80-16-4 where 80% are lurkers, 16% contribute a little and 4% contribute the most).
• 16 Jan 08
  

  Britt Watwood

  When studied, it was found that user participation generally follows a 90-9-1 Rule: 90% of users are "lurkers" (i.e. they read or browse but don't contribute) / 9% of users contribute from time to time, but other priorities dominate their time / 1% of

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• 11 Nov 07
  

  yan thoinet

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  • found that user participation generally follows
  • • Making it easier to contribute. Offering a wiki help centre, tutorial information and resources for users can help familiarize users with the environment and allow them to feel more comfortable contributing
    • Encouraging editing over creating. For most new users, the thought of a blank white page is frightening. Instead, offer templates and examples which users can reformat to fit their content without having to come up with everything themselves.
    • Reward participants. Identify your contributors and reward them using small incentives (i.e. gold stars on personal spaces).
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  Mike Nall

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