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My motivation to support WikiDeal

My reasons for joining WikiDeal come from the same place as my work in open science. I believe that knowledge is a common good, that it should be open to everyone, and that the people who produce it, universities and researchers, should keep control over how it is shared, checked and funded. The diamond model of publishing, where neither authors nor readers pay, is the clearest form of this idea in my own field. Its promoters describe it as community-driven, academic-led and fair by design (Ancion et al., 2022). But it keeps running into the same question: how do you fund a shared good over time without selling it, and without making it depend on a single funder? WikiDeal tries to answer this question by expanding and generalizing it to any field of the human activities, and that is why it interests me.

In 1942, Merton described the norms that make science work: knowledge belongs to all (today usually called communalism), claims are judged on their merits and not on who makes them (universalism), scientists work for knowledge and not for gain (disinterestedness), and nothing is accepted until it has been examined (organized skepticism) (Merton, 1942/1973). Open science adds transparency and reproducibility: it is not enough to be honest, others must be able to see it and to check the result for themselves (UNESCO, 2021). I have the same expectations for WikiDeal: its rules, accounts and decisions should be written down, public, applied the same way to all, and clear enough that anyone could understand the reasons for such decisions.

The social and solidarity economy gives these ideas a practical frame. It puts people and shared purpose before profit, relies on democratic governance, and gives surplus back to the community. The International Labour Organization adopted a resolution on decent work and the social and solidarity economy in 2022, which includes the first international definition of the field (International Labour Organization, 2022). The following year, the United Nations General Assembly recognised its role in sustainable development and encouraged states to support it (United Nations General Assembly, 2023). WikiDeal belongs to this tradition, and develops a concrete and actionable platform to deliver it. If it can show that a solidarity-based model can fund and run a shared project in a way that is open and can be checked, these lessons could be used for diamond journals and open academic infrastructures and platforms as well.

Finally, there is the question of fairness at a global level. Access to knowledge is still very unequal, and paying to publish or to read keeps many researchers, especially in lower-income countries, at the edge of science. The right of everyone to share in scientific progress and its benefits is part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations General Assembly, 1948, Article 27). The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science explicitly aims to reduce the knowledge gaps between and within countries (UNESCO, 2021). The Sustainable Development Goals call for reducing inequalities (Goal 10), for public access to information and transparent institutions (Goal 16), and for sharing knowledge between countries (Goal 17) (United Nations General Assembly, 2015). Knowledge for all is not only a slogan for me. It is a condition for science to be trusted, and I see in WikiDeal a chance to test, outside the academic world, the tools that could make it real.

References

Ancion, Z., Borrell-Damián, L., Mounier, P., Rooryck, J., & Saenen, B. (2022). Action plan for diamond open access. Science Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS, & Agence Nationale de la Recherche. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6282402

International Labour Organization. (2022). Resolution concerning decent work and the social and solidarity economy. International Labour Conference, 110th Session, Geneva.

Merton, R. K. (1973). The normative structure of science. In N. W. Storer (Ed.), The sociology of science: Theoretical and empirical investigations (pp. 267-278). University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1942)

UNESCO. (2021). UNESCO recommendation on open science. https://doi.org/10.54677/MNMH8546

United Nations General Assembly. (1948). Universal declaration of human rights (Resolution 217 A (III)).

United Nations General Assembly. (2015). Transforming our world: The 2030 agenda for sustainable development (A/RES/70/1).

United Nations General Assembly. (2023). Promoting the social and solidarity economy for sustainable development (A/RES/77/281).

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-My reasons for joining WikiDeal come from the same place as my work in open science. I believe that knowledge is a common good, that it should be open to everyone, and that the people who produce it, universities and researchers, should keep control over how it is shared, checked and funded. The diamond model of publishing, where neither authors nor readers pay, is the clearest form of this idea in my own field. Its promoters describe it as community-driven, academic-led and fair by design (Ancion et al., 2022). But it keeps running into the same question: how do you fund a shared good over time without selling it, and without making it depend on a single funder? WikiDeal tries to answer this question in another field, and that is why it interests me.
+My reasons for joining WikiDeal come from the same place as my work in open science. I believe that knowledge is a common good, that it should be open to everyone, and that the people who produce it, universities and researchers, should keep control over how it is shared, checked and funded. The diamond model of publishing, where neither authors nor readers pay, is the clearest form of this idea in my own field. Its promoters describe it as community-driven, academic-led and fair by design (Ancion et al., 2022). But it keeps running into the same question: how do you fund a shared good over time without selling it, and without making it depend on a single funder? WikiDeal tries to answer this question by expanding and generalizing it to any field of the human activities, and that is why it interests me.
-In 1942, Merton described the norms that make science work: knowledge belongs to all (communism, today usually called communalism), claims are judged on their merits and not on who makes them (universalism), scientists work for knowledge and not for gain (disinterestedness), and nothing is accepted until it has been examined (organized skepticism) (Merton, 1942/1973). Open science adds transparency and reproducibility: it is not enough to be honest, others must be able to see it and to check the result for themselves (UNESCO, 2021). I have the same expectations for WikiDeal: Its rules, accounts and decisions should be written down, public, applied the same way to all, and clear enough that anyone could follow the reasoning and reach the same conclusion.
+In 1942, Merton described the norms that make science work: knowledge belongs to all (today usually called communalism), claims are judged on their merits and not on who makes them (universalism), scientists work for knowledge and not for gain (disinterestedness), and nothing is accepted until it has been examined (organized skepticism) (Merton, 1942/1973). Open science adds transparency and reproducibility: it is not enough to be honest, others must be able to see it and to check the result for themselves (UNESCO, 2021). I have the same expectations for WikiDeal: its rules, accounts and decisions should be written down, public, applied the same way to all, and clear enough that anyone could understand the reasons for such decisions.
-The social and solidarity economy gives these ideas a practical frame. It puts people and shared purpose before profit, relies on democratic governance, and gives surplus back to the community. The International Labour Organization adopted a resolution on decent work and the social and solidarity economy in 2022, which includes the first international definition of the field (International Labour Organization, 2022). The following year, the United Nations General Assembly recognised its role in sustainable development and encouraged states to support it (United Nations General Assembly, 2023). WikiDeal says it belongs to this tradition. If it can show that a solidarity-based model can fund and run a shared project in a way that is open and can be checked, the lessons could be used for diamond journals and academic platforms.
+The social and solidarity economy gives these ideas a practical frame. It puts people and shared purpose before profit, relies on democratic governance, and gives surplus back to the community. The International Labour Organization adopted a resolution on decent work and the social and solidarity economy in 2022, which includes the first international definition of the field (International Labour Organization, 2022). The following year, the United Nations General Assembly recognised its role in sustainable development and encouraged states to support it (United Nations General Assembly, 2023). WikiDeal belongs to this tradition, and develops a concrete and actionable platform to deliver it. If it can show that a solidarity-based model can fund and run a shared project in a way that is open and can be checked, these lessons could be used for diamond journals and open academic infrastructures and platforms as well.
 Finally, there is the question of fairness at a global level. Access to knowledge is still very unequal, and paying to publish or to read keeps many researchers, especially in lower-income countries, at the edge of science. The right of everyone to share in scientific progress and its benefits is part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations General Assembly, 1948, Article 27). The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science explicitly aims to reduce the knowledge gaps between and within countries (UNESCO, 2021). The Sustainable Development Goals call for reducing inequalities (Goal 10), for public access to information and transparent institutions (Goal 16), and for sharing knowledge between countries (Goal 17) (United Nations General Assembly, 2015). Knowledge for all is not only a slogan for me. It is a condition for science to be trusted, and I see in WikiDeal a chance to test, outside the academic world, the tools that could make it real.