%0 Conference Proceedings %B 47th International Hawai'i Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-47) %D 2014 %T "A bit of code": How the Stack Overflow Community Creates Quality Postings %A Squire, Megan %A Funkhouser, Christian %K COLLABORATION %K collaborative development %K data mining %K developer network %K knowledge collaboration %K open content %K text mining %X The Stack Overflow web site is an online community where programmers can ask and answer one another's questions, earning points and badges. The site offers guidance in the form of a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), beginning with "What kind of questions can I ask here?" The answer explains that "the best Stack Overflow questions have a bit of source code in them". This paper explores the role of source code and non-source code text on Stack Overflow in both questions and answers. The primary contribution of this paper is to provide a more detailed understanding of whether the presence of source code (and how much) actually will produce the "best" Stack Overflow questions or answers. A second contribution of this paper is to determine how the non-code portions of the text might also contribute the "best" Stack Overflow postings. %B 47th International Hawai'i Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-47) %I IEEE Computer Society %P 1425-1434 %8 01/2014 %R http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2014.185 %> https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/hicssSMFinalWatermark.pdf %0 Journal Article %J Information & Management %D 2007 %T Investigating recognition-based performance in an open content community: A social capital perspective %A Okoli, C. %A Oh, Wonseok %K open content %K recognition-based performance %K social capital %K social networks %K social status %K virtual communities %X As the open source movement grows, it becomes important to understand the dynamics that affect the motivation of participants who contribute their time freely to such projects. One important motivation that has been identified is the desire for formal recognition in the open source community. We investigated the impact of social capital in participants' social networks on their recognition-based performance; i.e., the formal status they are accorded in the community. We used a sample of 465 active participants in the Wikipedia open content encyclopedia community to investigate the effects of two types of social capital and found that network closure, measured by direct and indirect ties, had a significant positive effect on increasing participants' recognition-based performance. Structural holes had mixed effects on participants' status, but were generally a source of social capital. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. %B Information & Management %V 44 %P 240-252 %8 Apr %@ 0378-7206 %G eng %M ISI:000247156800002 %1 management %2 SNA