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Articles and publications tagged Commons across the Atmosphere.

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DiffAug 30, 2026

From Lens to Legacy: WikiCommons PH Con 2027 heads to Puerto Princesa City

Main page (EN)Partnerships & Events

lu.isAug 21, 2026

friendsof.wiki: a quick changelog

Some quick notes on a couple of weeks of small-bore hacking.

wikipediawikidata

Digital NomadAug 9, 2026

The Monasteries of the Höllental: Why We Don't Need Another Eco-Village

Starting 24 August, a popup village of builders, programmers, and ecological economists is settling into the Austrian mountains south of Vienna for a month. They are meeting in the Höllental, a valley of steep limestone cliffs and cold rivers, to run the Valley of the Commons: four consecutive weeks, each built around a different theme, commons economics, cosmo-local production, community living, governance and funding, tested against each other in the same physical place rather than argued about in the abstract.

WOL NotesCosmo-Localism

lu.isAug 7, 2026

Wikipedia and friends: learning through code

I built friendsof.wiki to surface the open knowledge graph alongside Wikipedia articles, and learned a few things along the way.

llmwikipedia

Digital NomadAug 4, 2026

The Cooperatives of the Soil: Who Governs the Farm Data Code?

Farmers are accustomed to operating under pressure from both ends of their business. Upstream, four companies, Bayer, Corteva, Syngenta, and BASF, collectively control more than half of global commercial seed sales. Downstream, in Australia, Coles and Woolworths alone account for around 67% of grocery retail volume. The farmer sits in the middle, bearing the operational and climatic risks while having almost zero bargaining power at either end of the transaction. The Treadmill Nobody Chose covered this squeeze in detail. This piece is about the third pressure point layered on top of it.

WOL NotesAgtech

Digital NomadJul 31, 2026

The Commons Before the Combine: A Short History of Farmers Working Together

Ask most people when farmers started cooperating and they will picture the grain co-op down the road, or a barn raising in a period drama: something quaint, something that grew up alongside the tractor and the telephone. The real answer is older than writing. For most of the roughly nine thousand years since people first settled down to grow food, cooperation was not a value farmers held. It was the machinery. A shared irrigation channel, a shared plough team, a shared calendar for who grazes which pasture and when: none of it worked without a standing agreement among neighbours about who did what, when, and what happened if someone broke the rule. Take the agreement away and the technology stops functioning, not because anyone lacked the tools, but because nobody had a way to run them past the scale of a single household.

opinionAgriculture History

Nathan UpchurchJul 31, 2026

Eleventy Becomes, *Sigh*, Build Awesome

Build AwesomeShoelace

Digital NomadJul 23, 2026

Nature Is Not a Cash Flow: The Mismatch of Conservation and Private Finance

A vocabulary has been metastasising through environmental policy. It did not arrive as a position to be argued with. It crept in quietly, one term at a time, through grant applications, government white papers, and conference panels, until it had colonised the language before most people noticed there was anything to resist. We are told that the central challenge of our warming, degrading world is to make nature investable. We hear about biodiversity credits, green bonds, and nature-based financial instruments. The premise is simple: public funds are scarce, the cost of ecological restoration is vast, and therefore we must design financial structures that allow private institutional capital to flow into conservation.

opinionNature Finance

Digital NomadJul 19, 2026

The AI Stack Needs a Commons Governor

There are two dominant ways to think about who should govern artificial intelligence. The market frame says: the data, the models, and the compute are private goods, owned by the organisations that assembled them, exchanged through contract and property rights. Governance follows ownership. OpenAI owns GPT-4. Google owns Gemini. These are products. Markets will sort it out. The state frame says: AI is too consequential to leave to markets, so regulators must impose rules from above. The EU’s AI Act is the most developed version of this: binding requirements, conformity assessments, registration databases, penalties for violations.

opinionAI Commons

Digital NomadJul 15, 2026

Europe Chose Differently

€264 billion. That is how much European organisations spend annually on digital technology from non-European companies. And that number increases by roughly 10% every year, not because the products are getting better at the same rate, but because licence agreements are structured that way, and because the switching costs are designed to make leaving expensive. Some vendors have raised prices tenfold. The organisations paying them have, in most cases, no meaningful governance over the systems they depend on.

WOL NotesDigital Sovereignty

Digital NomadJul 13, 2026

What the Commons Built (And What's Taking It Apart)

In 1976, Bill Gates wrote an open letter to hobbyists accusing them of stealing. What they were actually doing was sharing software they had written for each other (modifications, tools, documentation), the way people had shared knowledge since the first person showed another how to do something useful. Gates reframed mutual aid as intellectual property theft. It was not a philosophical claim. It was a property claim, backed by lawyers, Congress, and eventually the World Trade Organization.

opinionDigital Commons

Digital NomadJul 7, 2026

Cooperative by Design: Why Mesh Networks and Community Telcos Are Built for Each Other

A commercial telco and a mesh network are not different ways of solving the same problem. They are built on opposite assumptions about how infrastructure works. Understanding why that matters is the key to understanding why regional Australia keeps getting left behind, and what to do about it. Phone box, rural Ceredigion by Dai Lygad, on Flickr "Phone box, rural Ceredigion" by Dai Lygad (CC BY 2.0)The Economics of Absence In regional and rural areas, the connectivity gap is not a failure of effort or ambition. It is the predictable output of a particular economic model.

WOL NotesCommunity Networks

lu.isJun 22, 2026

What Is a Harness?

LLMs are engines. Harnesses are everything else—the wheels, brakes, dashboard, GPS—that turn a raw engine into a useful vehicle. First in a series on harnesses for the open knowledge commons.

llmwikipedia

We Can Just Do ThingsJun 22, 2026

W Social and the ancient art of neighbourliness

Good behaviour matters more than good code

european unionsocial media

OpenStreetMap Blogs [Unofficial]Jun 17, 2026

OSM + Wikimedia Commons

CommonsuMap

Accueil - LinuxFr.orgJun 1, 2026

Agenda du Libre pour la semaine 23 de l'année 2026

AprilAgenda du Libre

WIKIMEDIA Österreich – Verein zur Förderung freien WissensMay 18, 2026

Eurovision Song Contest 2026 – United by Commons

Freie InhalteCommons

DiffApr 30, 2026

Dagbani Wikimedians Embark on Enskinment Photo Walk at Choggu Naa’s Palace

CampaignsCommons

grokludoApr 28, 2026

Playing Empire Games With Descendants of the Colonised - Mary Flanagan | grokludo 26

What do we talk about when we talk about 4X? We think about abstract systems, resource management, efficiency, growth... But what about all the invisible things attached to eXploitation, and eXtermination? Mary Flanagan is a game designer and academic, and the author of Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games. The book looks at the history of board games and how they encoded the values of their time and place – from ancient games through to the explosi

Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Gameswhat is water?

brennan.dayApr 16, 2026

Good, Standard Work: Creating the Commons

A defence of digital stewardship, IndieWeb principles, Blackfoot models of collective flourishing, and what it means to plant seeds in a garden you'll never see. From Garrett Hardin's infamous 1968 essay to Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize-winning refutation, the tragedy of the commons was never inevitable. It was always a choice.

personal essaycommons

The Stanford Daily | Breaking news from the Farm since 1892Apr 3, 2026

From the Community | Stanford needs Co-ops

From the CommunityOpinions

inkdroidMar 24, 2026

Enclosure

commonscoop

SEIN - Reconnecting CirclesFeb 22, 2026

Stewarding the Digital Commons

Beyond the extractive models of venture capital and the burnout of unsupported altruism lies a third way: stewarding our essential digital infrastructure as a commons. Let's build a sustainable future for open source.

SenseOpen source

DiffFeb 16, 2026

Wiki Loves Clermont-Ferrand: Wikimedia Commons competition organized by students, for students

Education & Open AccessMain page (EN)