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The Impact of Topic Characteristics and Threat on Willingness to Engage with
Wikipedia Articles: Insights from Laboratory Experiments
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Yenikent S
; Holtz P
; Kimmerle J
Front Psychol
2017[]; 8
(ä): 1960
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A growing body of research aims to identify the factors that motivate people to
make contributions in Wikipedia. We conducted two laboratory experiments to
investigate the connections between topic characteristics, perception of threat,
and willingness to engage with Wikipedia articles. In Study 1 (N = 83), we
examined how topic familiarity, topic controversiality, and mortality salience
influenced participants' willingness to engage with Wikipedia articles. We
presented the introduction parts of 20 Wikipedia articles and asked participants
to rate each article with respect to familiarity and controversiality. In
addition, we experimentally manipulated participants' level of mortality salience
in terms of the amount of threat they experienced when reading the article.
Participants also indicated their willingness to engage with a particular
article. The results revealed that familiar and controversial topics increased
the willingness to engage with Wikipedia articles. Although mortality salience
increased accessibility of death-related thoughts, it did not result in any
changes in people's willingness to work with the articles. The aim of Study 2 (N
= 90) was to replicate the effects of topic characteristics by following a
similar procedure. We additionally manipulated uncertainty salience by assigning
participants to three experimental conditions: uncertainty salience, certainty
salience, and non-salience. As expected, familiar and controversial topics were
of high interest in terms of willingness to contribute. However, the manipulation
of uncertainty salience did not yield any significant results despite the
emergence of negative emotional states. In sum, we demonstrated that topic
characteristics were factors that substantially influenced people's willingness
to engage with Wikipedia articles whereas perceived threat was not.