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Common Principles between a Wiki site & the Truth 
Contrasts with other Collaboration Tools and Public Forums
Life Application of 
"The Truth" 
(as in exhortations for example.)		 Wiki Sites Web Sites Community Sites on Web e-mail Lists Conventional Community Magazines
Egalitarian w/o Hierarchy for members "Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ. But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant."
 Everyone who is  a member can edit (where their application for membership is accepted). Only needs  text browser & slow connection. Only those who know HTML or have an HTML editor can participate. Everyone who is  a member can edit (where their application for membership is accepted). Needs  graphic browser & faster connection. Only need e-mail application. Needs faster connection because all pending new content comes down at once. Can e-mail submissions. Nevertheless, due to size limits, only few submissions get published.
"Exhort one another daily." All changes available every day. All changes available every day. All changes available every day. Immediately available but disruptive to daily activity. Several month delay from content creation to content delivery. New content only appear once per month.
"Exhort one another daily." Almost as easy as text editing. File create / save / link issues. Easy text editing but lots of navigating around site. As easy as letter writing. Must follow a formal style of article writing.
One's knowledge to continue to grow and expand. All changes recorded. Past editions lost or in hard to find backups. Past editions lost. No backup. Past editions unorganized, rarely saved, hard to search through. Lots of reading by the community. Little content creation. Past issues only pooled in limited areas with limited access.
Everyone held accountable for own actions. Records who made changes. Content creator rarely recorded. Members identified. Members identified. Membership manually verified.
Editors for magazines. Each ecclesia autonomous. Security at Site and Server Level if needed. Security available but must be created. Security available. No security. Editor responsible for content. Printed content rarely changed after the fact.
Everyone can study what interests them and exhort on what studied. Flexible for discourse on any topic. Flexible for discourse on any topic. Flexible for discourse on any topic. Very little thought given to some submissions. Due to space limitations only specific content allowed.
Many facets to the Truth in scriptures. Many styles of understanding & interpretation in scriptures. Easily organize, reorganize, or create multiple parallel structures of info & topics. Harder to reorganize or create multiple parallel structures of info & topics. Very Structured. Cannot be reorganized. Completely unstructured. Unstructured makes for information overload. Very structured. Cannot change structure. Structure limited to specific topics.
One is to correct mistakes and encourage proper course of action. Correcting mistakes easy finding prior historical info. is easy. (Even correct one's grammar.) Usually only content creator can correct mistake and use usually reluctant to do so. Usually cannot correct mistakes. Cannot correct mistakes. Mistakes usually corrected by errata in next issue.
Community is self-auditing & a peer-review system. Wiki community is self-auditing & peer-review system. No formal mechanism for auditing or review. No formal mechanism for auditing or review. Peer review usually in the form of criticism. Central auditing review system. Good with right person but slow.
Community news, calendars, and discussion important. Supports community news, and discussion threads. Limited support for calendars. Limited support for community news, discussion threads, and calendars. Very good support for community news, calendars, and discussion threads. Good support for community news and discussion threads. No support for calendars.  Good support for community news and calendars. Very limited support for discussion threads.
Ecclesias use voting to set importance and priorities. Each topic can have a vote of importance & accuracy applied to it. Difficult and limited voting capabilities. Some sites allow limited voting. No voting capabilities. No voting capabilities.
Not everyone with constant Internet connection. Developers of the software are working on a future function of off-line connectivity content reading and creation. Limited off-line abilities. Would depend on mailing lists for recreating info for offline reading and creation. Easy for offline viewing and content creation. All content creation and reading is offline.
Not everyone with computer. Can print consolidated / selected topics in book format. (Might include some extraneous data though.) Limited printing. (Might include some extraneous data.) No printing abilities. Easy to print but hard to read. Content and fonts not formatted or organized. Can be distributed internationally but at significant cost.
Multi-lingual Some web services could do crude translation. Some web services could do crude translation. Most are language dependant. No translation available. Language dependant. Little translation available. Language dependant.
Search for content. Instant, built -in, includes entire content, and is automatic. Must setup service. Most cannot search site.  Some have it some don't. None. Must rely on someone else's memory. Or, search a large local storage with poor results. Few limited and outdated indexes.
Content creators accessible for offline clarifications of content. Yes. Rarely. Yes. Yes. Hard to reach.
Easily abused by the abusive. "Suffer yourselves to be defrauded." Easily abused by the abusive. Easy to remove abuses, restoring back to previous content. Abuses can be expunged from history. Easily abused by the abusive. Easy to remove abuses. Hard to restore back to previous content. Abuses can be expunged from history. Easily abused by the abusive. Hard to remove abuses. Hard to restore back to previous content. Abuses can be expunged from history. Easily abused by the abusive. Hard to expunge history of abuses. Editor usually does a good job of filtering out abuses before they reach the public forum. Bad content cannot be expunged from history. This causes hostility and conflict in the public forum.
False doctrine can be made to sound believable. In the public forum this leads many astray. No filter for false doctrines. Easy to add proper interpretation to content so correct reasoning will always appear next to misunderstandings. Voting system can also be used to highlight (but not dogmatically validate) problems. No filter for false doctrines.  Only content creators or web host with tools can correct. Not any viewer. This causes hostility and conflict in the public forum. No filter for false doctrines.  No filter for false doctrines. This causes hostility and conflict in the public forum. Editor usually does a good job of filtering out false doctrines before they reach the public forum. Bad content cannot be expunged from history. This causes hostility and conflict in the public forum.
Personal problems should not be resolved in the public forum. No filter for personal problems. Easy to remove such content to previous content. Abuses can be expunged from history. Web host usually does a good job of filtering out personal problems before they reach the public forum. No filter for personal problems.  No filter for personal problems. This causes hostility and conflict in the public forum. Editor usually does a good job of filtering out personal problems before they reach the public forum.
Encourage further study. Empty links encourage topics for further study. Further study has immediate forum for recording, publish, and use. Hard to coordinate how future content to be added. Each content creator usually has own site and so content is not aggregated. Hard to put in  structure where future content is to be added. Further study can be encouraged but usually gets lost if submitted for distribution. Can encourage future study. Details are hard to publish. Letters to editor has limited space for public forum.
Rules created for community activities, behavior, participation, and communications. Minor variations allowed for each ecclesia.   Easy to communicate all rules for participation and for comparing submitted content with the rules. Only a single set of rules apply at a time though they can be easily changed if necessary. Web host rarely communicates all rules for participation or content. Each web host follows own set of rules. Easy to communicate all rules for participation. Only a single set of rules apply at a time though they can be easily changed if necessary. Hard  to compare submitted content with the rules.  One set of rules established. Hard to find the rules. Content rarely compared to rules. Content cannot be corrected, just criticized. Hard to change the rules. Editor usually does a good job of setting & applying rules. Only a single set of rules apply at a time. Hard to change the rules.
Encouraged to make use of sources if info outside community. Easily links to content outside of web site. Easy to  attach files. Easily links to content outside of web site. Possible to attach files. Can link to content outside of web site in specific places. Easy to attach files, but not in context with other content. Can link to other content. Can't attach files. Can only reference other material. Can't attach files.