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I've wrote lots of messy notes on wiki management | I've wrote [[fandom:community:zh:User:AABb1221/沙盒|lots of messy notes on wiki management]]. Due to my extreme lack of enthusiasm and motivation to organize messy notes - a process that takes a lot of time but hardly generates new knowledge - but some ideas need to be disseminated, I directly publish, translate, and distribute some important notes without much organization. <!--It is welcome to translate these notes but please note that the English version is mostly translated by AI while human proofreading and manual editing are not very careful.-->A few sentences unimportant to English users have been removed compared to the [[User:AABb1221/所有权笔记|Chinese version]]. | ||
'''Who does a community belong to? Why?''' Does it belong to everyone, contributors, enthusiasts, server owners, founders, bureaucrats, or the administration team...? What does this "belonging" or "ownership" mean? Decision-making power? Copyright (wikis generally waive most copyright, though (1) a few rights are still retained, and (2) this is not absolute; some wikis retain most rights)? Other forms of ownership include infrastructure property rights and contribution ownership beyond copyright (belonging to the contributors just like copyright)... and some completely unimportant possible interpretations. | '''Who does a community belong to? Why?''' Does it belong to everyone, contributors, enthusiasts, server owners, founders, bureaucrats, or the administration team...? What does this "belonging" or "ownership" mean? Decision-making power? Copyright (wikis generally waive most copyright, though (1) a few rights are still retained, and (2) this is not absolute; some wikis retain most rights)? Other forms of ownership include infrastructure property rights and contribution ownership beyond copyright (belonging to the contributors just like copyright)... and some completely unimportant possible interpretations. | ||
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If this "ownership" refers to copyright, then clearly it belongs to the contributor. Specifically, the copyright of any given piece of content belongs to its specific contributor. Talking about the ownership of a wiki as a whole is legally meaningless. | If this "ownership" refers to copyright, then clearly it belongs to the contributor. Specifically, the copyright of any given piece of content belongs to its specific contributor. Talking about the ownership of a wiki as a whole is legally meaningless. | ||
This page | [[fandom:community:zh:User:AABb1221/沙盒#wiki经济学|This page]] classifies wiki edits, pointing out other contribution categories. Content contributions generate copyright; technical maintenance and administrative contributions do not generate copyright, but the logic is analogous. However, copyright is still treated here as the representative of contribution ownership, because it is the only category of wiki contribution ownership recognized by law and thus supported by extensive legal scholarship. | ||
== Infrastructure Property Rights == | == Infrastructure Property Rights == | ||