The knowledge commons of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives, documenting peer production, open cooperativism, and commons-based governance across two decades of movement work. The wiki’s motto states its posture directly: Together we know everything, together we have everything. Michel Bauwens is the founding intellectual figure. An international network of researchers, activists, and practitioners maintains and extends it.
Editorial approach
The P2P Foundation Wiki functions as a curated clearinghouse rather than an open free-for-all. Content passes through a network of contributors who track live initiatives, emerging theory, and historical precedent in the peer-to-peer and commons field. The framing is transitional: the wiki treats capitalist market dominance as one phase in a longer arc and positions commons-centric alternatives as the successor architecture. This is close enough to the BioConomy corpus’s own posture that citations and cross-references travel easily between the two.
Where its coverage is strongest
Peer production and open cooperativism. The wiki carries the fullest available treatment of open cooperativism as a form, including case studies (Enspiral, Sensorica, Mondragon, and dozens more), the theoretical work distinguishing it from conventional cooperatives, and the policy proposals that follow. BioConomy work on federated cooperatives should read from and cite this material.
Cosmolocalism. Bauwens’s cosmo-local production framework has its most extensive documentation on this wiki, including its intellectual history, its case examples, and its relation to Fab Labs, distributed manufacturing, and digital commons.
Commons governance. Extensive treatment of Ostrom’s work, the enclosure history, commons-based peer production, and contemporary commons movements. Where the BioConomy corpus treats commons as an operating principle for a BioConomy, this wiki treats commons as a general political-economic form.
Peer property and legal architecture. Copyfarleft, the peer-production license, commons-based reciprocity licenses, and the whole cluster of legal instruments that commons economies rely on.
Traffic between the wikis
BioConomy pages that already draw on the P2P Foundation corpus include the Mycelial Coordination concept page (which cites Bauwens’s August 2026 P4P essay), the Archipelago of Regenerative Projects entry, the cosmo-local production glossary entry, and the Michel Bauwens person page.
BioConomy pages that should probably grow explicit links to the P2P Foundation Wiki include federated cooperative, commons, and any future entries on open value accounting or contributive accounting.
Related pages
- Michel Bauwens
- Cosmo-local Production
- Archipelago of Regenerative Projects
- Mycelial Coordination
- Bauwens, M. (2026). Understanding the Importance of the P4P Moment
Provenance
Entry created 4 September 2026 as one of the two founding entries of the related-wikis/ folder. Substantive detail on the wiki’s editorial approach and content areas verified against the wiki’s current main page on the same date.