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### What is this website about?
This website is thought to be an ever-growing **collection of guidelines and best practices for online peer production**. It is aimed at web developers and UX designers who want to build peer production platforms, and more generally at people interested in increasing participation in their online projects. The thematic priority is the peer production of research projects in citizen science (because this is what my [PhD is about](https://projects.cri-paris.org/projects/DngFftiU/summary). See also "Who are you and why did you create this website?" on this page), but the guidelines and features should be applicable to other peer production contexts, too. I will also add new features from time to time, if I find something interesting, and you are also cordially invited to contribute!
This website is thought to be an ever-growing **collection of guidelines and design practices for online peer production**. It is aimed at web developers and UX designers who want to build peer production platforms, and more generally at people interested in increasing participation in their online projects. The thematic priority is the peer production of research projects in citizen science (because this is what my [PhD is about](https://projects.cri-paris.org/projects/DngFftiU/summary). See also "Who are you and why did you create this website?" on this page), but the guidelines and features should be applicable to other peer production contexts, too. I will also add new features from time to time, if I find something interesting, and you are also cordially invited to contribute!

### What is peer production? What is citizen science? Why peer production in citizen science?
Peer production is a way of online distributed knowledge production that relies on the collective intelligence of self-organizing groups of individuals, without or with less rigid hierarchical control and management (Benkler et al., 2015). This mode of knowledge production is most commonly known from projects like Wikipedia or Open Source Software. Thus, provenly, complex knowledge objects, like an encyclopedia or software code can and still continue to be developed in this way. Science, from a very general perspective, can also be framed as the creation of complex knowledge objects, and more and more of these objects take shape as a digital format, e.g. in the form of databases, code or articles (Bechhofer et al., 2010). Citizen science is about involving the public in scientific activities, or more specifically individuals who don’t necessarily have formal academic credentials, like a university degree. This practice holds a connotation of democratizing the access to science as a whole and allows, in some of its variants, participation in several phases of the research cycle or completely autonomous research (Ottinger et al., 2017; Vayena et al., 2015).
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