This is known as commons-based peer production. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production
Esther On 9-8-2012 13:02, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Jan Velterop <velte...@gmail.com > <mailto:velte...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > No, 27,995 still to be converted :-) > > Jan > > No, > 27995 - x > where x is the number of new people working in an extended community > mode. The 250,000 people who have helped to create Open Street Map and > get it accepted as among the highest quality and most useful > cartographic product didn't come from old-school cartographers. They > came from all walks, including cyclists and walkers. Wikipedia didn't > come from converted academics, it came from people outside academia > and encyclopedias. Academia (with a very few exceptions) howled it > down and it has succeeded in spite. (It will, whether we like it or > not, become a mainstream component of scientific communication). In > similar mode there will be a new type of scholarly communication. > > P. > > > > -- > Peter Murray-Rust > Reader in Molecular Informatics > Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry > University of Cambridge > CB2 1EW, UK > +44-1223-763069 > > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
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