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This is known as commons-based peer production.<br>
See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Jan
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">No, 27,995 still to be
converted :-)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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No,<br>
27995 - x<br>
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. <br>
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Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>
University of Cambridge<br>
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