The editors’ activity on Wikipedia is a creation process. Its production organisation mechanisms
have been the subject of many research studies (see, for example, Crowston et al., 2013). These
mechanisms combine, negotiate and organise a number of forms of knowledge (Pentzold, 2009;
Sundin, 2011). They also train new community members and even produce computer code. The
motivational factors for the editors are the pleasure they derive from contributing to the
encyclopedic project, their participation in the community forums and the fact that they help to keep
the articles in good order (Nov, 2007). These multiple sources of motivation are consistent with
observations made on other open-source projects, with the top motivations being amusement and
ideology, which are reminiscent of the hacker ethic (Himanen, 2001). Ritzer and Jurgenson (2010)
argue that ‘cyber-libertarianism is the backbone of the open-source movement [...]’, and Wikipedia
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is part of that. Drawing on Toffler (1980), they note that Wikipedia is one of these user-generated
online contents that can be described as prosumption (that is, a combination of consumption and
production). By considering Wikipedia editors as prosumers, however, we run the risk of producing
an ostensive definition (Strum & Latour, 1987) of the link that unites them to one another as well as
to the organisation and society. The concept of prosuming is therefore knowingly manipulated and
avoids, at the very least, predetermining the activity being studied as either production or
consumption.

### Language ###
English

### Assessment ###
The text mentions motivations for Wikipedia editors, which could be a natural query topic for someone interested in understanding why people contribute to Wikipedia.

### Query ###
What motivates people to edit Wikipedia articles?
What motivates people to edit Wikipedia articles?