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The Hidden Costs of Requiring Accounts: Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Peer Production
Benjamin Mako Hill, Aaron Shaw
Online communities, like Wikipedia, produce valuable public information goods. Whereas some of these communities require would-be contributors to create accounts, many do not. Does…
Qualities of Quality: A Tertiary Review of Software Quality Measurement Research
Kaylea Champion, Sejal Khatri, Benjamin Mako Hill
This paper presents a tertiary review of software quality measurement research. To conduct this review, we examined an initial dataset of 7,811 articles and found 75 relevant and h…
Identifying Competition and Mutualism Between Online Groups
Nathan TeBlunthuis, Benjamin Mako Hill
Platforms often host multiple online groups with overlapping topics and members. How can researchers and designers understand how related groups affect each other? Inspired by popu…
Underproduction: An Approach for Measuring Risk in Open Source Software
Kaylea Champion, Benjamin Mako Hill
The widespread adoption of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) means that the ongoing maintenance of many widely used software components relies on the collaborative effort…