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Ah, so you mean the various orgs, policies, moderators, etc. "administrative" social structures that emerged on Wikipedia? In other words, more or less "meta.wi

by akavel 9y ago

Ah, so you mean the various orgs, policies, moderators, etc. "administrative" social structures that emerged on Wikipedia? In other words, more or less "meta.wikipedia.org"? If yes, that was not clear to me from your original post (to tell the truth, still isn't; that's why I decided to hereby ask in the end). As to the "something new" in this area, one thing that comes to my mind is some wiki-based experiment/game I seem to have seen once, where its own rules could be edited; I think it was framed as a kind of "social experiment", but I can't google it out now. Other than that, I'm afraid I'm still not exactly sure what you're trying to say, so I find it hard to discuss or acknowledge yet... That said, for sure I seen the wiki tech used in more than one SCP-like narrative/worldbuilding case. On the other hand, the c2 wiki was in fact a kind of encyclopedia already, so maybe a wiki just naturally matches with such structural model?

Animats 9y ago
some wiki-based experiment/game I seem to have seen once, where its own rules could be edited; I think it was framed as a kind of "social experiment" That's touched on in SF, in "The Moon Goddess and the Son" (1979), by Donald Kingsbury. It's not developed there, just mentioned briefly.
schoen 9y ago
> As to the "something new" in this area, one thing that comes to my mind is some wiki-based experiment/game I seem to have seen once, where its own rules could be edited You might be thinking of Peter Suber's Nomic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic
cecilpl2 9y ago
You are likely thinking of the game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic, which happens to be very well-suited for online play. Two of the largest instances are https://agoranomic.org/ https://agoranomic.org/ and https://blognomic.com/ https://blognomic.com/
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by akavel 9y ago

Animats 9y ago

some wiki-based experiment/game I seem to have seen once, where its own rules could be edited; I think it was framed as a kind of "social experiment" That's touched on in SF, in "The Moon Goddess and the Son" (1979), by Donald Kingsbury. It's not developed there, just mentioned briefly.

schoen 9y ago

> As to the "something new" in this area, one thing that comes to my mind is some wiki-based experiment/game I seem to have seen once, where its own rules could be edited You might be thinking of Peter Suber's Nomic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic

cecilpl2 9y ago

You are likely thinking of the game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic, which happens to be very well-suited for online play. Two of the largest instances are https://agoranomic.org/ https://agoranomic.org/ and https://blognomic.com/ https://blognomic.com/

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