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No praise without effort: experimental evidence on how rewards affect Wikipedia's contributor community

Michael RestivoDepartment of Sociology, Stony Brook University, SBS-S433, Stony Brook, NY, 11794USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Arnout van de RijtDepartment of Sociology and Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, SBS-S433, Stony Brook, NY, 11794USA
Pages 451-462 | Received 29 Sep 2013, Accepted 23 Jan 2014, Published online: 13 Mar 2014

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