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 <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>* >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
