Twelve leverage points

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.