Notes out of Ward Cunninghams Talk at WikiSym 2006

• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ShortestWikiContest
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SigWik

• Open principle
• Incremental principle: It must be possible and useful to cite unwritten pages.
• Organic principle: The structure of the site is expected to grow and evolve with the community that uses it.
• Mundane principle: A small numeber of concentions provide all necessary formatting.
• Universal principle: The mechanisms of editing and organizing are the same as those of writing so that any writer is automatically and editor and organizer.
• Overt principle: The foramtted and printed output will suggest the input required to reproduce it.
• Unified principle: Page names will be drwan from a flat space so that no additional context is required to interpret them.
• Precise principle: Pages will be titled with sufficient precision to avoid most name clashes, typically by forming noun phrases.
• Tolerant principle: All input will produce output that can be watched and reviewed by any other visitor.
• Observable principle:
• Convergent principle: Ambiguity and duplication can be removed by finding and citing similar or related content.

• Methodology
• Technology
• Community