Re: [Wiki-research-l] Does wikipedians feel like commoners ?

[Kerry Raymond]

I think Wikipedians are Wikipedians for a variety of reasons. Some of them are 
more altruistic (free knowledge), others are more personal (but not necessarily 
negative), others reasons are negative (pushing a point of view, advertising, 
vandalism, stroking their own ego, etc).

But if we look at the group that are more-or-less altruistic, I sincerely doubt 
that we can attribute their motivation to a particular author, open source 
software or whatever. I've been well-aware of Richard Stallman, open source 
software, open research data, etc,  from before being a Wikipedian but those 
things didn't cause me to become a Wikipedian. I think most Wikipedians are 
simply people who can see that knowledge empowers people and enables them to 
live better lives, build a better society etc, and think that Wikipedia is 
therefore beneficial to the world and something they feel able to contribute 
to.  I don't think most of them would think themselves as "commoners", indeed I 
think most of them would be thinking you were talking about contributors to 
Wikimedia Commons rather than the meaning you intend.

It simply makes good sense to contribute to Wikipedia.

Kerry
  


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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Does wikipedians feel like commoners ?

[Jan Dittrich]

Even aside from their fall from grace,
> …widely-read-at-the-time analyses…

I guess, one would read "Cathedral and the Bazaar" as historically
influential text today, I am not sure how "strong" it is as analysis of
commons based systems in the first place.

Jan

Am So., 8. Dez. 2019 um 02:27 Uhr schrieb Stuart A. Yeates <
syea...@gmail.com>:

> It's worth noting that while Richard Stallman and Eric S. Raymond
> played important roles historically and published
> widely-read-at-the-time analyses, both have had significant falls from
> grace since then and basing current analyses of the commons and other
> systems on their work should be done _very_ carefully.
>
> cheers
> stuart
>
> --
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>
> On Sun, 8 Dec 2019 at 11:39, Todd Allen  wrote:
> >
> > If you're looking for general history on the digital commons movement,
> > check out Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation, and Eric S.
> > Raymond's *The Cathedral and the Bazaar*. A lot of the initial
> Wikipedians
> > were very much in favor of open source and open content, and were quite
> > familiar with those. I don't, to be quite honest, know about "E. Ostrom",
> > and have never heard them discussed on-wiki, but of course other editors
> > might be.
> >
> > But if you really want to see the influence of the "commons" idea on
> > Wikipedia, the open source software movement is going to be very relevant
> > to what you want to look at. Mediawiki, the software that Wikipedia and
> > other Wikimedia sites run on, is open source, and the technology stack
> > underlying it is as well.
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 9:05 AM Sebastien Shulz <
> sebastien.sh...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I'm currently doing a Ph.d on digital commons. I'm tracing the history
> of
> > > the "digital common" movement (if there is one). And I wanted to know
> if
> > > there are some studies about Wikipedians and their relation with the
> > > conceptual framework of the commons (do they feel like commoners ? Do
> they
> > > know E. Ostrom, etc.)
> > > Thanks a lot for your help !
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > *Sébastien Shulz*
> > > *Doctorant en sociologie *
> > > *Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés*
> > > *06.68.86.68.46 // Linkedin <
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastien-shulz>*
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Does wikipedians feel like commoners ?

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Juergen Fenn, 08/12/19 01:22:

Commoners used to draw on Wikipedia as an outstanding example of commons
goods, but Wikipedians usually do not refer to Ostrom's works


Indeed, although this has changed a bit after she won a Nobel. It was 
2007 when "Understanding knowledge as a commons" made the link clear 
between that theory and Wikipedia.


It's nothing unusual though: even "Free as in freedom" 1.0[1] will tell 
you that such books were published during a peak of interest, arguably 
*after* the ideas they were describing had succeeded (like GNU/Linux in 
the 1990s), yet the same ideas were present as underground current if 
not direct inspiration[2] for those same successes before.


The same with Wikipedia: most "classics" were probably published in the 
late 2000s after its success,[3] and even Lessig's "Free culture", in 
2004, was already able to mention Wikipedia as a success (although most 
of the book is on music!). The early Wikimedia projects users did not 
come thanks to them and may have absorbed the ideas in other ways. As 
for the late users and the mass of infrequent contributors, it's hard to 
tell how influenced they were. Same for other classics on copyleft, the 
internet etc. like David L. Lange, James Boyle and others not mentioned yet.


It might be that such classics are actually written when they are in a 
way superfluous and we come back to them when we lost our way. (I 
personally read most of them during some crisis even though I knew their 
contents and may have referenced them in public presentations before 
that, ouch.) A survey to find out what "cultural references" the 
wikimedians have would be interesting: I agree we'd have some surprises 
(in Italy, R. David Lankes is mentioned a lot in some circles due to the 
influence of librarians).


It would be interesting to know which classics or other works are most 
effective at convincing the public about the underlying principles of 
the Wikimedia projects, or even at recruiting new active users. In Italy 
we've just started experimenting a bit on this, with a free distribution 
to schools of a few thousand copies of Carlo Piana (2018) 
.


Federico

[1] , updated version 
.
[2] Nupedia was directly inspired by GNU 
, a fact which 
is standard to mention at least in classic Wikimedia Italia public 
outreach since the 2005.
[3] Consider also Aigrain, Boldrin/Levine, De Martin/De Rosnay 
 and 
many others in languages other than English and Italian that I probably 
know nothing about.


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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Does wikipedians feel like commoners ?

[Stuart A. Yeates]

It's worth noting that while Richard Stallman and Eric S. Raymond
played important roles historically and published
widely-read-at-the-time analyses, both have had significant falls from
grace since then and basing current analyses of the commons and other
systems on their work should be done _very_ carefully.

cheers
stuart

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On Sun, 8 Dec 2019 at 11:39, Todd Allen  wrote:
>
> If you're looking for general history on the digital commons movement,
> check out Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation, and Eric S.
> Raymond's *The Cathedral and the Bazaar*. A lot of the initial Wikipedians
> were very much in favor of open source and open content, and were quite
> familiar with those. I don't, to be quite honest, know about "E. Ostrom",
> and have never heard them discussed on-wiki, but of course other editors
> might be.
>
> But if you really want to see the influence of the "commons" idea on
> Wikipedia, the open source software movement is going to be very relevant
> to what you want to look at. Mediawiki, the software that Wikipedia and
> other Wikimedia sites run on, is open source, and the technology stack
> underlying it is as well.
>
> On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 9:05 AM Sebastien Shulz 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm currently doing a Ph.d on digital commons. I'm tracing the history of
> > the "digital common" movement (if there is one). And I wanted to know if
> > there are some studies about Wikipedians and their relation with the
> > conceptual framework of the commons (do they feel like commoners ? Do they
> > know E. Ostrom, etc.)
> > Thanks a lot for your help !
> > Best regards,
> >
> > *Sébastien Shulz*
> > *Doctorant en sociologie *
> > *Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés*
> > *06.68.86.68.46 // Linkedin *
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Does wikipedians feel like commoners ?

[Juergen Fenn]

Commoners used to draw on Wikipedia as an outstanding example of commons
goods, but Wikipedians usually do not refer to Ostrom's works or even
'The tragedy of the Commons', etc. We mostly draw on hacker's pamphlets
such as Eric S. Raymond and  John Perry Barlow. At least in the
German-speaking community we aim at setting knowledge free by literally
writing it down into Wikipedia. The licences allowing for commercial use
of Wikipedia are a case in point. They are mostly seen as a strange
phenomenon that was imposed upon us from the anglo-saxon world, but they
do not fit the continental point of view as there should not be a
commercial context for 'free' goods created for everyone. So, after all,
Sébastien, I think you have found one of the community's touchy spots
that are worth thinking about. Unfortunately, I do not remember a study
about the topic. So there is room for one still.

Best regards,
Jürgen.

Am 07.12.19 um 23:39 Uhr schrieb Todd Allen:
> If you're looking for general history on the digital commons movement,
> check out Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation, and Eric S.
> Raymond's *The Cathedral and the Bazaar*. A lot of the initial Wikipedians
> were very much in favor of open source and open content, and were quite
> familiar with those. I don't, to be quite honest, know about "E. Ostrom",
> and have never heard them discussed on-wiki, but of course other editors
> might be.
>
> But if you really want to see the influence of the "commons" idea on
> Wikipedia, the open source software movement is going to be very relevant
> to what you want to look at. Mediawiki, the software that Wikipedia and
> other Wikimedia sites run on, is open source, and the technology stack
> underlying it is as well.
>
> On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 9:05 AM Sebastien Shulz 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm currently doing a Ph.d on digital commons. I'm tracing the history of
>> the "digital common" movement (if there is one). And I wanted to know if
>> there are some studies about Wikipedians and their relation with the
>> conceptual framework of the commons (do they feel like commoners ? Do they
>> know E. Ostrom, etc.)
>> Thanks a lot for your help !
>> Best regards,
>>
>> *Sébastien Shulz*
>> *Doctorant en sociologie *
>> *Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés*
>> *06.68.86.68.46 // Linkedin *
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Does wikipedians feel like commoners ?

[Todd Allen]

If you're looking for general history on the digital commons movement,
check out Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation, and Eric S.
Raymond's *The Cathedral and the Bazaar*. A lot of the initial Wikipedians
were very much in favor of open source and open content, and were quite
familiar with those. I don't, to be quite honest, know about "E. Ostrom",
and have never heard them discussed on-wiki, but of course other editors
might be.

But if you really want to see the influence of the "commons" idea on
Wikipedia, the open source software movement is going to be very relevant
to what you want to look at. Mediawiki, the software that Wikipedia and
other Wikimedia sites run on, is open source, and the technology stack
underlying it is as well.

On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 9:05 AM Sebastien Shulz 
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm currently doing a Ph.d on digital commons. I'm tracing the history of
> the "digital common" movement (if there is one). And I wanted to know if
> there are some studies about Wikipedians and their relation with the
> conceptual framework of the commons (do they feel like commoners ? Do they
> know E. Ostrom, etc.)
> Thanks a lot for your help !
> Best regards,
>
> *Sébastien Shulz*
> *Doctorant en sociologie *
> *Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés*
> *06.68.86.68.46 // Linkedin *
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Does wikipedians feel like commoners ?

[Alexandre Hocquet]

On 07/12/2019 17:04, Sebastien Shulz wrote:

Hi everyone,

I'm currently doing a Ph.d on digital commons. I'm tracing the history of
the "digital common" movement (if there is one). And I wanted to know if
there are some studies about Wikipedians and their relation with the
conceptual framework of the commons (do they feel like commoners ? Do they
know E. Ostrom, etc.)
Thanks a lot for your help !
Best regards,


Sébastien,

I'm guessing your aware of this paper by Cardon and Levrel :

Cardon, D., & Levrel, J. (2009). La vigilance participative. Une 
interprétation de la gouvernance de Wikipédia. Réseaux, 154(2), 51. 
https://doi.org/10.3917/res.154.0051


Though it specifically mentions Ostrom, the paper was more about 
attempting to translate Wikipedia pilars and rules into Ostrom's wording 
than an in-depth analysis of a (supposedly) community of commoners.


For more recent literature on a similar topic, I'd check Tkacz's book :

Tkacz, N. (2015). Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness. Retrieved from 
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo1908.html


Maybe you'll find something about the community
 and their sense of values.


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[Wiki-research-l] Does wikipedians feel like commoners ?

[Sebastien Shulz]

Hi everyone,

I'm currently doing a Ph.d on digital commons. I'm tracing the history of
the "digital common" movement (if there is one). And I wanted to know if
there are some studies about Wikipedians and their relation with the
conceptual framework of the commons (do they feel like commoners ? Do they
know E. Ostrom, etc.)
Thanks a lot for your help !
Best regards,

*Sébastien Shulz*
*Doctorant en sociologie *
*Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés*
*06.68.86.68.46 // Linkedin *
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