• Principles and Patterns of Social Knowledge Applications.
    • Legal Babble
    • Not Your Cup of Tea?
  • Foreword or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Wikipedia
  • Overview
    • Rectifying the Names
      • Why “Knowledge”?
    • Why are Social Knowledge Applications Important?
    • On Methodology
      • Principles and Patterns
    • Structure of the Work
  • Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia = Wiki + Encyclopedia
    • Is Wikipedia A Real Encyclopedia?
    • Birth and Growth of Wikipedia
    • Maximising The Value of Wikipedia
    • Coordination
      • Direct and Indirect Communication
      • Authority Models for Collaborative Authoring
    • Allocation
    • Knowledge Collection
    • Knowledge Integration
  • Patterns
  • Bootstrapping
    • Seeding
    • Backward Compatibility
    • Commensurate Cost
    • The Shadow of the Future
    • Pledge Banks
  • Valorisation
    • Addressability
    • End-to-End Intelligence
  • Coordination
    • Stigmergy
    • Tailgating
    • Benevolent Dictatorship
  • Allocation
    • Centralised Allocation
    • Market Allocation
    • Allocation in Social Knowledge Applications
    • The Principle of Subsidiarity
    • Self Allocation
    • Prosumer
  • Knowledge Generation and Collection
    • Out of Mediocrity Excellence
    • Converting Latent to Formalised Knowledge
    • Modularisation
  • Knowledge Integration
    • Continuous Integration
    • Redundancy
      • Using Redundancy To Achieve Reliability
    • Information Markets
      • Efficiency of Information Markets
      • Contract Types and Applications
    • Large-Scale Aggregation
  • Principles of Network Utility
    • Intrinsic and Extrinsic Utility
    • Extrinsic Utility and Consumption
    • Extrinsic Utility of Communication Networks
    • Extrinsic Utility of Broadcasting Networks
      • Optimal Dimension of Broadcasting Networks
    • Extrinsic Utility of Many to Many Networks
    • Extrinsic Utility of Group-Forming Networks
  • Some Implications of the Principles of Network Utility
    • Networks Have a Bootstrapping Problem
    • One Function One Network
      • Networks Tend to Interconnect and Merge
      • The Winner Takes All
    • Network Evolution is Path Dependent
    • Network Evolution is Surprising
    • The Production of Network Goods Can Be Inefficient
      • To Maximise Social Welfare Networks Need To Be Based on Open Standards
  • Principles of Evolution of Network Topology
    • Power-Law Distributions and Preferential Attachment in Networks
      • Limits of the Preferential Attachment Model
      • Implications of the Power-Law Distribution
    • Scalability in Content Production and Distribution: from Broadcasting and Grassroots to Hub-and-Spoke Networks
    • Networks Evolve from Content-Driven to Interaction-Driven to Recombination-Driven
  • Bibliography