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DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7701-042-9-0057

CULTURAL DIMENSIONS AS VARIABLES SHAPING THE ACTIVITY OF MEMBERS OF VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE: A CASE STUDY OF WIKIMEDIA PROJECTS

Anna Karczewska1, Katarzyna Kukowska1, Sebastian Skolik1
1 Czestochowa University of Technology, Częstochowa, Poland

Language versions of global projects are usually created by users recruited from other cultures. For this reason, it would be more beneficial to design initiatives and interfaces taking into account cultural conditions. This may translate into greater involvement of virtual communities of activities, such as communities of individual language versions of Wikipedia. The research carried out was limited in scope. The analyses were limited to data on only some language versions and specific categories of users. Further research could include data obtained from Database Backup Dumps or use a public querying interface (Quarry) to get answers to SQL queries quickly.

Keywords: Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, virtual communities of practice, online activities, Wikimedia projects, organization of online projects

pages: 57-58, online: 2025



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