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[[w:Donella Meadows]]' '''[[w:Donella Meadows' twelve leverage points to intervene in a system|twelve places to intervene in a system]]''' applied to [[Consumerium]] : *12. '''numbers (subsidies, taxes, standards)''' - article lengths, numbers of links, number of [[editor]]s *11. The '''size of buffers''' relative to the flows *10. '''material stocks and flows''' - server hardware, comfortable places to surf and type *9. The '''length of delays''', relative to the rate of system change *8. '''regulating negative feedback loops''' - ????? *7. '''driving positive feedback loops''' - *6. '''information flows''' (who does and does not have access to what kinds of information) - [[XML/DTD]], talk pages *5. the '''rules of the system''' (incentives, punishment, constraints) (Mc Flurry stuff ?) *4. the '''power of [[w:self-organization]]''', e.g. of [[trolls]], [http://disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=little_tin_god_sysop little tin god sysop] *3. the '''goals of the system''', e.g. avoiding becoming [http://disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia Wikipedia] *2. the '''mindset''' out of which the goals, rules, feedback structure arise *1. the '''power to transcend paradigms''', change mental structure.
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