User:The Crusader of Truth/Wiki Theory

(How did I get to this point in my life.)

Basic principles of Mediawiki
The common moving principle behind a wiki is that content will always change, and that people will add in the content that is needed.

Content
There are two primary viewpoints for adding content, eventualism and immediatism. From my observations, wikis tend to start out with a philosophy of eventualism, and then turning to immediatism once they grow and develop.

Concepts
These are some of the concepts of a wiki's polices and how they affect a wiki.

Eventualism
Eventualism is the tenancy and concept that it's okay to have stub pages now because they will be filled with information later. Growing wikis tend to have a viewpoint more focused on this as they need more information to be filled out.

Immediatism
Immediatism is the tenancy and concept that wikis should have content filled out immediately in order to prevent misleading users. Wikis that have a large amount of content tend to lean towards this philosophy in order to preserve the quality and professionalism of the wiki.

Yin and Yang
Many of these concepts are the formation of a leaning ideology, or a ground between them. There are some of the "yin and yang" concepts:


 * Eventualism vs. Immediatism - The concept of information now versus later
 * Exclusionism vs Inclusionism - The concept that information should only relate to the page vs can include relevant topics