Twelve leverage points

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.