Twelve leverage points: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 08:22, 14 May 2003

w:Donella Meadows' twelve places to intervene in a system applied to Consumerium :

12. numbers (subsidies, taxes, standards) - article lengths, numbers of links, number of editors
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, little tin god sysop
3. the goals of the system, e.g. avoiding becoming 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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-[[en:Donella Meadows]]' '''[[en:Donella Meadows' twelve leverage points to intervene in a system|twelve places to intervene in a system]]''' applied to Wikipedia:
+[[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
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 *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) - [[m:person DTD]], [[m:spacetime DTD]], [[m:Special:Recentchanges]], talk pages
+*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'''
+*5. the '''rules of the system''' (incentives, punishment, constraints) (Mc Flurry stuff ?)
-*4. the '''power of [[en:self-organization]]''', e.g. of [[trolls]]
+*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 [[Wikipedia]]
+*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.