Twelve leverage points

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    en:Donella Meadows' twelve places to intervene in a system applied to Wikipedia:

    • 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) - m:person DTD, m:spacetime DTD, m:Special:Recentchanges, talk pages
    • 5. the rules of the system
    • 4. the power of en:self-organization, e.g. of trolls
    • 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.