<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>10</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Crowston, Kevin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fagnot, Isabelle</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The motivational arc of massive virtual collaboration</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.5 Working Conference on Virtuality and Society: Massive Virtual Communities</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">FLOSS</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">free/libre open source  software.</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Massive virtual collaboration</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Motivation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wikipedia</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1–2 July</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><related-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://crowston.syr.edu/sites/crowston.syr.edu/files/MortivationalArc.pdf</style></url></related-urls></urls><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lüneberg, Germany</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Massive virtual collaborations (MVC) involve large numbers of mostly unpaid contributors collectively creating new content. Wikipedia is the most dramatic example of MVC; smaller-scale examples include blogs and discussion groups and free/libre open source software (FLOSS) projects. In this paper, we propose a model of motivations for contribution to MVC that integrates various theoretical perspectives to extend prior work. Specifically, we distinguish three different levels of contribution to projects (initial, sustained and meta) and capture the dynamic and recursive effects of contributions on emergent individual and project states.</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Please refer to the more recent version of the paper. </style></notes></record></records></xml>