WikiThePark

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What is wiki? What means wiki? - After almost 10 years of wiki existance we still don't know. Many answers have been tried (to do: give a list of all those pages here at MeatballWiki and elsewhere) but maybe we have to accept that there is no single answer. Perhaps "A wiki is what we are able to make from it" is the best we can get. There are different paradigms. "Wiki The Encyclopedia" is a successful one. They will be many others. MetaBaby or "Wiki The Street". Some questions are: Who owns this? Who may use this? What rules apply? How are these rules enforced?

A paradigm that seems likable is WikiThePark. You go there to relax. You can stay for yourself, read something. You can meet people for any kind of conversation. You can give or take a lesson under the shadow of a tree. Its peaceful. Lots of people use the park. Everybody may use it. There are rules that are respected and enforced, but this is rarely necessary, because people know each others expectations and act according to them. You can't dig out the bushes or take the flowers, you may or may not play music or football. It's simple enough. There may be a owner who is respected because he shares his property. It may be public property, but ownership isn't that important. Power is not important. People enjoying their time, feeling at home and alive, enjoying the sun or the shadow, looking at beauty, seeking the resonance with the whole, gathering strength for the time outside of the park, are important. People are important. I like WikiThePark.

Do you know any actual examples of co-operative parks where everyone lends a hand with the maintenance but there is no actual gardener or keeper? --AndrewCates

Andrew, that is a wonderful metaphor. Have you see PublicArt? Ward was, of course, influenced by Alexandrian patterns. The park metaphor was not lost on Ward. -- SunirShah

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