* Open - Should a page be found to be incomplete or poorly organized, any reader can edit it as they see fit. * Incremental - It must be both possible and useful to cite unwritten pages. (incomplete) * Organic - The structure of the site is expected to grow and evolve with the community that uses it. (co-evolution) * Mundane - A small number of conventions provide all necessary formatting.(undistracted) * Universal - The mechanisms of editing and organizing are the same as those of writing so that any writer is automatically and editor and organizer. * Overt - The formatted and printed output will suggest the input required to reproduce it. (concrete) * Unified - Page names will be drawn from a flat space so that no additional context is required to interpret them. (vocabulary) * Precise - Pages will be titled with sufficient precision to avoid most name clashes, typically by forming noun phrases. (happy accidents) * Tolerant - All input will produce output even when the output is not likely to be that desired. * Observable - Activity within the site can be watched and reviewed by any other visitor. * Convergent - Ambiguity and duplication can be removed by finding and citing similar or related content.