Stigmergy
A word which is useful for understanding what happens on Wikipedia is stigmergy. It means communication which occurs in emergent systems in which the individual objects in the system manipulate the enviroment, and the manipulation leads to the emergence of complex structures like termite nests or ant trails or Wikipedia.
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Just as simple as that?
Yeah, dude. It's THAT simple.
stigmergy? ... as opposed to the concept of "hive mind" that all the wikipediologues thought was so cool three seconds ago?
Whoa. I was just thinking that. Hive mind!
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