2010/12/31 Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin(a)gmail.com>
Evolution is the best model we have for how to build something, the
way to keep progress going is to continually try new things; if they
fail, "meh", if they succeed — "yay"!
Just to add a little bit of "pure theory" into the talk, wiki project is
simply one of the most interesting, and successful, models of "adaptive
complex systems theory". I encourage anyone to take a deeper look into it.
It's both interesting for wiki users/sysops/high level managers and for
complex systems researchers.
I guess, complex system theory wuld suggest too politics. Just an example:
as in evolution, best environment where something new appears is not the
wider environment, but the small ones, the "islands", just like Galapagos in
evolution! This would suggest a great attention about what happens into
smaller wiki projects. I guess, the most interesting things could be found
there, while not so much evolution can be expected into the "mammoth"
project. ;-)
Alex (from it.source)