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 -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky On Sun, 8 Dec 2019 at 11:39, Todd Allen <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > 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 > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
