ABSTRACT
Crowdsourcing projects, from Wikipedia, to Galaxy Zoo, to the National Library of Australia's newspaper text-correction programme, have found that although they may have thousands of registered volunteers, most work is in fact done by a minority of users. The reliance upon Super Transcribers also suggests that to say Transcribe Bentham is crowdsourcing is a misnomer, as the project does not have thousands of active users carrying out small tasks. Transcribe Bentham is coordinated by University College London's (UCLs) Bentham Project, in partnership with UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL Library Services, UCL Creative Media Services and the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC). The use of Media Wiki is a key factor in Transcribe Bentham's success: it is perhaps the world's single most widely used collaborative open-source software for authoring online content, is stable, well-documented and has a global user base.
