[Wikimedia-l] Any studies on economic impact of community-produced open data?

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Mon Jun 4 13:17:21 UTC 2012


On 4 June 2012 13:57, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> AIUI, weekdays office hours are our peak access period, and Wikipedia
> generally isn't blocked in offices the way Facebook, etc. often are.
> This suggests it's good for *something* economically.

It's good for lowering the productivity of offices! I occasionally
look things up on Wikipedia at work that are actually about my work,
but usually it's to settle a debate that has nothing at all to do with
work.



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