-Self-determination of the community: it’s a volunteer project.

-Clear boundaries: the wiki domain, and those who can edit it.

-In large commons, multiple levels of management: on Wikipedia, administrators.

-Managed by locals: wiki users.

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Open-ended meaning-making, shared world, scarce real-estate. These three properties are crucial. Every game with more than one player becomes a game about the interaction between those players. Without shared scarcity, there is no incentive to join our realities, and meaning-making becomes fork-only.

-Graduated sanctions for those who violate community rules: reprimands on talk pages, page rollbacks, banning.

-Community can monitor behavior: edit history.

-Community makes its own rules: wikis have no formal rules beyond actions the community carries out.