One Wiki Style

Please do not take this as a voice-from-above giving you rules for how to use Wiki, either on the page from whence you came or in general. Wiki Nature just ain't that way. This page and the approach it describes are meant only as an attempt to stimulate our best possible discourse.

Every page on the wiki is not required to reflect your views. Wiki is a center of discourse, not a group manifesto.

Link freely, especially when criticizing.

Using Signatures when appropriate.

Find a place for people whose views counter your own. The only view that can't fit within Wiki is the view that other people aren't allowed to disagree.

Edit boldly when you agree, but be very cautious about reversing existing content.

Be Excellent To Each Other. A cheesy reference to a popular comedy, but we could do a lot worse than to follow this practice in all of our discourse.

Strive to undo your mistakes.

Carefully and occasionally ignore this advice.

That's it. Thanks for checking it out!

How about: When you create a Mundane Link, include in the Wiki some idea of what is in the page/site being pointed to.

A would-be contributor wonders in One Wiki Evolution. Thanks for linking to your thoughts rather than stepping on these.

This doesn't seem to be working too well in terms of the Wiki Nature. I see the Big Design pages being modified back and forth in a very contentious fashion, rather than the productive tolerance that usually characterizes Why Wiki Works. If you can't explain Why One Wiki Style Works, I think I'm going to sign this here paragraph -- Peter Merel

Yeah, it didn't work out so well, did it? It got even worse! Note the new edits, in an attempt to fix up the idea.

It's more that the alternatives manifestly don't work. Something needs to be done differently. See Thread Mode Corrected and Thesis Antithesis Synthesis for other attempts.