EngineProgrammableByAll

Last edit July 27, 2008
UniversalParticipation (as one of the SingularitarianWikiPrinciples) allows any capable programmer to alter, hopefully improve the underlying WikiEngine of the WikiForum in which the programmer is active. -- FridemarPache

A fully programmable engine would allow users (editors) much more control over the information presented, to the extent possibly even of making it completely unreadable (trivial example: white text on white background). How could editing access be moderated?

  • Permission could be given by a voting module. But first the new modification should be presented on a WikiEngineSandbox -- fp

  • The "white lettering problem" could be resolved with a minimum of friction by integrating a private local profile-file, controlling the local appearance for each user -- fp

  • SmartWikizens (the inhabitants of a SmartWiki) must learn new levels of acting with sensibility in a much more sensible environment. Otherwise they eliminate themselves. -- fp


Wikis as forums with ContentEditableByAll may still shock many people in the Web who experience them for the first time. SmartWikis qualify for upstepping in the FutureShockLevels. I bet, in five years, there are a lot of them, populated by friendly humans (at the same compatibility level as in this forum) accommodating themselves to the next future shock. -- fp