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Other authors have of course made significant contributions to the grammar of peer production. For example, stigmergic collaboration is enabled by three characteristics, identified by Benkler (2006) as embedded in the social design of a peer production project: modularity, granularity, and low cost of integration. To begin with, the project needs to be broken down into smaller components, i.e., into modules. For example, in Wikipedia the content is divided into entries, sections, and paragraphs. People can contribute from one word to thousands of words (or figures). The modules allow for any size of contribution: there are many levels of granularity to match different levels of contributors’ motivation and time availability.

So, tasks, products and services are organized as modules, which fit with other modules in a puzzle that is continuously re‐assembled. And granularity is a property of creating the smallest possible modules with the aim of lowering the threshold of participation (Benkler, 2006). Further, it should be easy to put the various contributions (the modules) into the final product. Also, effective quality‐control mechanisms should be in place to avoid low quality of contributions.