Join the registry of verified contributors and receive your limited edition pin.
Why
Code, data, knowledge, culture — freely shared digital goods.
Contributors and users who breathe life into the resource.
Collective rules that organize the commons openly.
Contributors only make up a tiny fraction of those who benefit from the resource. For example, in September 2025, there were 0.041% editors for 734 million unique mobile visitors on English Wikipedia.
Without contributors, there wouldn't be a resource to share. And many of them do it on their own spare time!
In our opinion, contributors are not celebrated enough!
Policy × Contributors = ✨
To truly understand digital commons, one must contribute. When policy people and contributors get together and learn from each other, magic happens.
Contributions are open to everyone
Regardless of technical skills, gender, age, or background — contributions can be quick, easy, and accessible to everyone.
Commons & AI
The rise of AI makes We Make Commons more relevant than ever. Digital commons are made by humans — and that is not going to change.
AI can lower the barrier to contribution and bring new people to commons. But it also puts enormous pressure on existing maintainers, who get flooded with auto-generated pull requests and issues — often submitted by people who don't fully understand what they're contributing.
According to a Harvard Business School study (2024), 5% of developers generate over 95% of the value in open source software. A few thousand people maintain a digital infrastructure worth an estimated $8.8 trillion.
"The tech is by humans, for humans"
As AI becomes part of our workflows, it matters more than ever to recognise and celebrate the humans who make the commons. As the La Suite Numérique project puts it in their contributing guidelines : "Autonomous agents, agentic pipelines, or any non-human contributions are not welcome." What matters is the human accountability behind every contribution.
Whether or not they used AI — if a human understood, reviewed and signed off on their contribution, they deserve to be celebrated.
✊ I am a human who contributesHow
Fill in the form with a link to your public contribution: GitHub profile, Wikipedia article, OpenStreetMap handle, community forum…
Our team examines your proof of contribution. We verify that the link shows a contribution to a shared resource.
Your profile appears in the public registry. You can also help review new applications.
Come see us at a conference to collect your limited edition pin and holographic sticker!
🔗 A proof of contribution can be:
Imposter syndrome?
Even if you contributed 10 years ago, to an obscure GitHub repo or a very niche Wikipedia article — we want you in the registry. All contributions matter.
What
Once your proof of contribution is approved, you'll receive a very limited edition pin and holographic sticker. As people wear them at conferences, we hope to spark conversations about the joy and challenges of contributing to digital commons.
🎖️ Pin front side + sticker visual
🔄 Back side — all forms of contribution
🎖️ 👾
Very limited edition
Goodies are distributed in person at conferences. Come meet us to collect yours!
Hall of Fame
Every profile has been verified by our team. A big shout out to all of them! 👏
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Code for France 🇫🇷
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By spreading the word about the campaign
By helping your community submit their proof of contribution
By supporting those who wish to make their first public contribution
By funding the next batch of pins and stickers (€250–€500)
