Here we collect basic principles of the design and use of federated wiki - affordances - that give it a character and make it distinctive as a way of working: wiki(ing).
**Federating** - Inside a wiki, between plugins and pages **in the page lineup** - for example, constructing graphs of page links in a lineup, or running calculations from page to page; and - out-there, forking content (pages, paragraphs) between different wikis and different farms **in the wikiverse**: ultimately, tacit or explicit collaboration between the **writers** of many wikis.
**Neighborhood** - The fediverse of fedwiki is not an any-to-any 'universe' (like the p2p networking of the fediverse, for example). Rather, it's a p2p relationship within a neighborhood of mutually-recognising wiki writers, published tacitly as pull-content rather than push-content. Neighborhood in wiki
**Personal notebook**
Turning inside-out the popular model of delivery of digital media as 'open learning', here we consider the accumulating and mapping of documents as a practice of cultivating and evolving a personal cognitive landscape.
**The lineup** - To be added xxx
**The collaborative link**
The web became more collaborative with wiki's introduction of the Internal Link. Link names were drawn from a shared space backed up at the time by shared storage. Federated wiki's internal links preserves the shared space but not the shared storage making it the ideal link for the distributed collaborative web.
**Chorus of voices** - Not an engine for consensus (like Wikipedia) but a means of enabling distributed thinkers to evolve shared understandings and repositories, if they choose to. wiki as an atelier
**Awareness** - wiki is 'an awareness engine', offering tacit indications of activity occurring elsewhere in the federation (thro Recent changes, thro older/newer page flags). Awareness in wiki
**Durability** - pages lasting 'forever' in the federation, simplicity of forking. http://ward.asia.wiki.org/view/welcome-visitors/view/backup/view/reloading-from-backup/admin.asia.wiki.org/keep-safe
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