Wiki ideology

Wiki ideology pervades large public wikis. We should avoid it:

• neutral point of view, i.e. community point of view is God's Eye View, which encourages systemic bias by bringing in and reinforcing one's own faction by technological escalation
• virtual community, i.e. confusing epistemic community with no body at risk with real bodily reality community where some body needs protecting, this leads directly to such other-body-risking games as outing
• wise crowds, an extreme version of the virtual community ideology that claims that groupthink itself is "wisdom"
• developer vigilantiism, a form of direct technological escalation
• sysopism, just trusting a gang of thugs to judge and mediate the above - leads inevitably to trollist response
• Wikiism, the belief that the technology of large public wikis is itself magical or powerful in a way that ordinary conversations are not

Many people believe these are just variants of fascism and racism, or a particularly virulent sort of capitalism where those with infrastructure owners trust can run rampant, and this is justified by property rights.