The need to manage information about evolving systems gave rise to the world wide web (<a href="https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/short-history-web" rel="nofollow">https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/short-history-...</a>).<p>But the need to share "patterns" is what gave rise to the wiki (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki#History" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki#History</a>)<p>Wikis are great for unearthing and documenting patterns. But as an organic system, like a garden, it needs gardeners.<p>The principles here are guidelines for that gardening.