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(2010) . Cross cultural analysis of the Wikipedia community.  \nJournal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, 61 (10), 2097‐2108.  \nCross‐cultural analysis of the Wikipedia community  \nNoriko Hara  \nSchool of Library & Information Science, Indiana University  \n[nhara@indiana.edu](nhara@indiana.edu)  \nPnina Shachaf  \nSchool of Library & Information Science, Indiana University  \n[shachaf@indiana.edu](shachaf@indiana.edu)  \nKhe Foon Hew  \nNational Institute of Education Nanyang Technological University Email: [khefoon.hew@nie.edu.sg](khefoon.hew@nie.edu.sg)  \nCross‐cultural analysis of the Wikipedia community  \nAbstract  \nThis paper reports a cross‐cultural analysis of four Wikipedias in different languages and demonstrates their roles as communities of practice (CoPs). Prior research on CoPs and on the Wikipedia community often lacks cross‐cultural analysis. Despite the fact that over 75% of Wikipedia is written in languages other than English, research on Wikipedia primarily focuses on the English Wikipedia and tends to overlook the Wikipedias in other languages. This paper first argues that Wikipedia communities can be analyzed and understood as CoPs. Second, norms of behaviors are examined in four Wikipedia languages (English, Hebrew, Japanese, and Malay), and the similarities and differences across these four languages are reported. Specifically, typical behaviors on three types of discussion spaces (Talk, User Talk, and Wikipedia Talk) are identified and examined across languages. Hofstede’s dimensions of cultural diversity as well as the size of the community, and the function of each discussion area provide lenses for understanding the similarities and differences. As such, this paper expands the research on online CoPs through an examination of cultural variations across multiple CoPs, and increases our understanding of Wikipedia communities in various languages.  \nIntroduction  \nThe proliferation of the social Web and its participatory nature gives rise to many online communities, some of which undertake a common practice that links users together. In this environment, users often become “prosumers,” who are consumers and producers at the sametime (Tapscott & Williams, 2008) . Various companies identified the potential utility of prosumers by soliciting product and research ideas from the prosumers, who are not employed by their organizations. These prosumers are sharing knowledge through massive collaborative efforts. For example, they provide answers to questions posted on Q&A sites such as Yahoo! Answers or write encyclopedic articles on sites similar to Wikipedia. Wikipedia users are engaged in knowledge sharing processes by implementing common practices that create and maintain shared identity. This type of knowledge sharing is pertinent to the idea of“communities of practice”(CoPs) (Lave & Wenger, 1991) . The CoP framework offers “a lens by which we can focus our understanding of informal collaborative learning that occurs outside formal classrooms and training environments”(Hara, 2009, p. 2) .  \nAlthough the practice of informal collaborative learning through knowledge sharing is not limited to organizational settings, a number of studies about CoPs were conducted primarily in organizational environments. Whether it was about employees of Caterpillar (Ardichvili, Page,& Wentling, 2003), coordinators for Adult Learning Councils (Gray, 2004), user interface designers (Veenswijk & Chisalita, 2007), Xerox technicians (Orr, 1996), or insurance claim processors (Wenger, 1990), these studies discussed knowledge sharing practices of CoPs within organizational boundaries. As noted earlier, knowledge sharing practices outside organizations are already occurring. Thus, examination of these open CoPs (that go beyond organizational boundaries) ought to be expanded.  \nAs collaboration across countries increases, a better understanding of cross‐cultural interactions is ne","cbCaia498ALswL95","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaia498ALswL95","pdf",391665,24,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Communities of practice and knowledge sharing\n## Cross-cultural perspectives on online CoPs\n## The role of community size in CoPs\n## Research gap and genre-based interaction analysis","[{\"question\":\"这项研究关注哪四种语言的维基百科社区？\",\"answer\":\"研究聚焦英语、希伯来语、日语和马来语四种语言的维基百科社区，并对其行为规范进行比较。\"},{\"question\":\"研究如何理解维基百科社区的运作机制？\",\"answer\":\"论文将维基百科社区视为实践共同体（CoPs），用该框架分析其作为在线协作学习环境的角色。\"},{\"question\":\"研究重点考察了哪些讨论空间中的典型行为？\",\"answer\":\"重点考察并比较了 Talk、User Talk 和 Wikipedia Talk 三类讨论空间中的典型行为。\"},{\"question\":\"论文使用了哪些分析视角来解释跨语言差异？\",\"answer\":\"论文结合文化多样性维度、社区规模，以及各讨论区的功能作为理解相似性与差异的视角。\"}]","Cross-cultural analysis of the Wikipedia community - Research paper | PDF"]