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“Emergence (…) refers to the arising of novel and coherent structures, patterns, and properties during the process of self-organization in complex systems.” ([http://www.anecdote.com.au/papers/EmergenceAsAConsutructIssue1_1_3.pdf Emergence as a Construct: History and Issues], Goldstein 1999) | |||
Technological innovation can appear as the determining factor of how are habits are reshaped as new facilities come online, each with their new bundles of characteristics, which in turn release new capabilities and create new potentialities in the hands of their early adopters. However where the constraints of the commodity form – as in the free software movement – are in abeyance, the ability of how these early adopters form themselves into a community can play a more determining role. | |||
The 21st century saw the emergence of Wikipedia as a beautiful example of this: Wikipedia could only take off thanks to a self-organising community which incorporated user-feedback not only in its own self-regulation, but also in the regulation of how the wiki software underlying the encyclopedia would be improved. By adopting the encyclopedic form, the appeal was always to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyman everyman], i.e. any “[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_having_ordinary_skill_in_the_art person having ordinary skill in the art]” of accessing the internet. The combination of the personal computer and the internet means that there is a continual flux in the capacities innovation unlocks in such a distributed environment. | |||
<span class="plainlinks">[https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2015/ | [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page Wikidata] was launched in October 2012 as an application of the “[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiki_Way Wiki Way]” in a new environment: that of an on-line [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_base knowledge base]. Wikidata was originally conceived as a way of providing a data spine through which related articles on various wikipedias could be linked. This was achieved in early 2013. However Wikidata soon moved forward from simply reconciling internal issues, to dealing with external sources. Wikidata is one of several projects to reconcile identifiers and authority files from different sources, but with the integration of data from Google’s Freebase, it is becoming an increasingly important resource outside of the Wikipedia context. Alongside the development of the database as such various tools are continually being developed to access the knowledge base and make increasingly complex searches. | ||
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