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The collaborative organization of knowledge

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Diomidis Spinellis

Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece

Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece
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Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece

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Communications of the ACM Volume 51 Issue 8 August 2008 pp 68?73 https://doi.org/10.1145/1378704.1378720

Published: 01 August 2008 Publication History

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Why Wikipedia's remarkable growth is sustainable.

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Communications of the ACM Volume 51, Issue 8
Designing games with a purpose
August 2008
92 pages
ISSN: 0001-0782
EISSN: 1557-7317
DOI: 10.1145/1378704
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