We create a new concept. What does it mean? We began with freezing and thawing which we understand. now we have to implement it.
The application of this idea is to how we code, and how we create workflows for authors. It is especially relevant to wiki, but we think this may extend to many areas of science and social knowledge creation.
# Fluid exporation First we explore. We make a mess. We link and weave ideas together. We write solipsistically, and we weave. We tolerate mess as we are confident in our team and the tools at our disposal to tidy the mess we create. We do not love mess, but we understand its place. This liquid, fluid phase is what we understand as wiki.
# We make solid We find an aspect that we wish to commercialise. By this we mean that we wish to make of value to others. We do not consider money, or our current systems of knowledge incentivisation. But we know that to make our work useful we must tidy it. And tidying it makes it "solid" - makes it an object of sorts, something we can pass on.
We finish a wiki page and are pleased with the way if feels. It looks well. We are happy with what we call it. It has a name. Like a child that we feel is ready for the world we send it to school.
# We freeze it
Some of our work we consider important in time. We understand everything to be in flux. We are aware of the work of time and others. But that is not enough. We also need the future to speak to the past. For this reason we freeze out work.
Freezing has many aspects and components. We start simply by preventing wiki from changing the content easily.
# We thaw We turn back to our beginnings and release the frozen content back to the dynamic change in response to context that makes us part of the federation.
# See also - Wiki Button