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

[Andre Engels]

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Even then it could be good for productivity, by decreasing the amount
of time you and your colleagues spend over looking up who is right in
their debate (although probably that gained time will be used for more
debates, so the net effect on productivity will be close to zero).

-- 
André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com