The concept of the permanent wiki differs from a traditionally organised archive in that we seek to structure it with a garden metaphor.
Wiki is by design and philosophy a technology that promotes gardening over more rigid data structures. A wiki is hand tended and to a certain extent messy. It is the result of an organic process of writing.
At the same time there are many forms of garden. And we encourage a layer of experimentation that provides a variety of views to the underlying immutable data as laid down in the evolving commons we call the anthropological archive.
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