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
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 s
Hello,
I would also second Tkacz book as an analysis. Less well known but very
interesting, since it has a lot of data detailed and structured, is E.A.
Rijshouwer "Organizing Democracy : Power concentration and
self-organization in the evolution of Wikipedia".
Jan
Am Sa., 7. Dez. 2019 um 17
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 l
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
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 comm
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
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
