WikiEducator community
The 12 Principles of Collaboration. This is an archived version - there does not appear to be a current version.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060427022829/http://www.mongoosetech.com/realcommunities/12prin.html
All communities, on or off the web, adhere to basic principles in order to thrive. Mongoose Technology has codified these tenets into the 12 Principles of Collaboration which form the sociological basis of community. The 12 Principles function as a hierarchy. The chief principle, Purpose, is supported by the other 11 principles.
This seems like a pretty good "test" for a community. How does WikiEducator stack up to these criteria?
I do not buy the notion that a community must have a purpose. A community just is -- like a polar bear just is.
