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title="Special:MyLanguage/Mediawikianism">Mediawikianism</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Mediawikianism" title="Mediawikianism"> </a></span></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Post-Deletionism" title="Special:MyLanguage/Post-Deletionism">Post-Deletionism</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Post-Deletionism" title="Post-Deletionism"> </a></span></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Association_of_Transwikist_Wikipedians" title="Special:MyLanguage/Association of Transwikist Wikipedians">Transwikism</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Association_of_Transwikist_Wikipedians" title="Association of Transwikist Wikipedians"> </a></span></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidynamism" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikidynamism">Wikidynamism</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Wikidynamism" title="Wikidynamism"> </a></span></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikisecessionism" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikisecessionism">Wikisecessionism</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Wikisecessionism" title="Wikisecessionism"> </a></span></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Redirectionism" title="Special:MyLanguage/Redirectionism">Redirectionism</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Redirectionism" title="Redirectionism"> </a></span></dd></dl> <div class="philosophy-footer"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Philosophy" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Philosophy">+/-</a></div> </div> <div style="font-size: 85%; margin-bottom: 1.25em;"> <p><span style="border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd; padding-bottom: .5em;"> <span style="white-space:nowrap"><span lang="en"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">English</a></span> <small>(en)</small> <b>·</b></span> <span style="white-space:nowrap"><span lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Darwikinisme" title="Darwikinisme">français</a></span> <small>(fr)</small> <b>·</b></span> <small class="noprint plainlinks" title="Edit"><a class="external text" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Darwikinism/lang&action=edit"><span lang="en" dir="ltr" title="Edit">+/−</span></a></small> </span></p> </div> <p><b>Darwikinism</b> (<span style="color:#0645AD">/ˌdarˈwɪkiˈnɪzəm/</span>) is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/neologism" class="extiw" title="en:neologism">neologism</a> that describes the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/social_darwinism" class="extiw" title="en:social darwinism">socially Darwinian</a> process to which <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki" class="extiw" title="en:Wiki">Wiki</a> pages are allegedly subject. One might say that Wikipedia is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ecology" class="extiw" title="w:ecology">ecology</a> of ideas or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/meme" class="extiw" title="en:meme">memes</a> undergoing constant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/evolution" class="extiw" title="w:evolution">evolution</a>. </p><p>The content of articles is subject to Darwinistic pressures between different authors. Sections and sentences within an article are subject to ruthless culling and replacement if they are not considered 'fit'. Obviously, a Wikipedia page's evolution towards stability occurs just as much through cooperation as competition, but cooperation is a perfectly valid and popular strategy within ecology and so should not be seen as a different process. </p><p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/natural_selection" class="extiw" title="w:natural selection">selecting</a> agents, namely the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/author" class="extiw" title="en:author">authors</a>, <a href="/wiki/Editor" class="mw-redirect" title="Editor">editors</a>, and visitors to the Wiki's pages themselves, act under a (more or less obscure) selective pressure that leads them to assume their own fitness depends on those of their mental offspring. In reality, however, their corresponding <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/adaptive" class="extiw" title="en:adaptive">adaptive</a> behavior could well be nothing more than an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/addiction" class="extiw" title="en:addiction">addiction</a>, which is normally under heavy <i>negative</i> selective pressure.<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r21013926">.mw-parser-output .module-text-highlight{color:#444;background:#eee}.mw-parser-output .module-text-highlight-apix{color:#36b}</style><span class="module-text-highlight">What does this mean, and how is it relevant?</span><sup class="noprint module-text-highlight-apix">[<i>unclear</i>]</sup> </p><p>Just like natural selection, happiness or satisfaction or quality may not be selected for, but reproductive fitness is. In Wikipedia, it may not be so much quality that is selected for, but acceptability and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fad" class="extiw" title="en:fad">faddishness</a>. The ethos within Wikipedia is that the ecology of Wikipedia is self-healing and does indeed breed quality. What this concept suggests is that it is important to design the software, and set policy, such that the ecology of Wikipedia does indeed breed for quality. Currently, it seems generally accepted that it does. </p><p>The pages' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fitness" class="extiw" title="en:fitness">fitness</a> in terms of stability and visiting frequency<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r21013926"><span class="module-text-highlight">What is fitness in terms of stability and visiting frequency?</span><sup class="noprint module-text-highlight-apix">[<i>unclear</i>]</sup> can be substantially enhanced by the number of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hyperlink" class="extiw" title="en:hyperlink">hyperlinks</a> pointing to it. The (virtual) relevance thus created underlies the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pageranking" class="extiw" title="en:pageranking">pageranking</a> method. </p><p>Because quality and fitness are not concrete values which can be quantitatively measured, the question of what exactly Wikipedia is evolving towards can be answered in many different ways. Some find their answer in an overlap with the <a href="/wiki/Inclusionist" class="mw-redirect" title="Inclusionist">inclusionism</a> philosophy, suggesting that the end result is a compilation of all human knowledge. Others, such as subscribers to <a href="/wiki/Exclusionism" title="Exclusionism">exclusionism</a> or <a href="/wiki/Deletionism" title="Deletionism">deletionism</a>, feel that the ultimate end would be a collection of only the most notable and encyclopedia-worthy articles edited to a level of perfection never before seen in published works. Overall, the difference in views on how the Darwikinist goal<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r21013926"><span class="module-text-highlight">What is the Darwikinist goal?</span><sup class="noprint module-text-highlight-apix">[<i>unclear</i>]</sup> is attained depends on what the individual feels would be the ideal Wikipedia. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Other_views" data-mw-thread-id="h-Other_views"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Other_views"></span>Other views<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Other_views"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Darwikinism&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Other views"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are other popular <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/metaphor" class="extiw" title="w:metaphor">metaphors</a> for the process within Wikipedia </p> <ul><li>Wikipedia is a <a href="/wiki/Collaborative_work_of_art" title="Collaborative work of art">collaborative work of art</a></li> <li>Wikipedia is a <a href="/wiki/Battlefield_of_ideas" title="Battlefield of ideas">battlefield of ideas</a></li></ul> <p>Other people might hold that: </p> <ul><li>Wikipedia is a demonstration of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Liberalism" class="extiw" title="en:Classical Liberalism">classical liberal</a> philosophy of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Action" class="extiw" title="en:Human Action">Human Action</a>, whereby optimized wealth <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence" class="extiw" title="en:Emergence">emerges</a> out of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralization" class="extiw" title="en:Decentralization">decentralized</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/laissez-faire" class="extiw" title="en:laissez-faire">free</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketplace_of_ideas" class="extiw" title="en:Marketplace of ideas">competitive</a> process of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_and_error" class="extiw" title="en:Trial and error">trial-and-error</a> creation.</li> <li>Wikipedia is a demonstration of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Law_of_Thermodynamics" class="extiw" title="en:Second Law of Thermodynamics">Second Law of Thermodynamics</a> as it applies to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ignorance" class="extiw" title="w:ignorance">ignorance</a></li> <li>Wikipedia articles are subject to undirected <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/random_mutation" class="extiw" title="w:random mutation">random mutation</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/idiot" class="extiw" title="w:idiot">idiots</a></li> <li>Wikipedia articles which are on popular, important or historical subjects are given the greatest attention by <a href="/wiki/Vandal" title="Vandal">vandals</a></li> <li>Darwikinism is the final desperate justification for intellectual <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mediocrity" class="extiw" title="w:mediocrity">mediocrity</a> by mediocre minds.</li></ul> <p>(Although those latter remarks will certainly not help in the least to improve the process.) Interesting, though, is the observation that articles do indeed mutate. It appears that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_drift" class="extiw" title="w:Genetic drift">random drift</a> indeed plays a major role in darwikinism. 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