You have arrived at the LivingThing wiki, a research tool for complexity, incorporating —

• articles on important concepts in Complexity theory
• personal research notebooks
• more stuff when we think of it.

Unlike the Wikipedia, we do not aim to be an impartial reference, but more of a scrapbook for specialist research into the emerging research areas around complexity. This goal may change if you get involved and have a say in it.

yes. Registration for this wiki is open to all - once you have registered, you may edit (almost) anything and comment on absolutely everything in the wiki, much as in the world’s most famous Wiki, Wikipedia.

At this stage in its life the wiki is in beta test phase. It’s dog ugly, not very efficient, and is missing lots of features wanted that i (Dan) would like. Don’t be afraid. It works, it is regularly backed up and will only be improving - there will be at least one person (dan again) working full-time on it for the next year to get it up to scratch and to fill it with useful information.

Please click on the “login” button below to login or register for an account.

Um... if a few of us are starting to use this thing at the same time... let’s have a new users page where we can discuss what does and does not work for us in this wiki... go there for some discussion.

We hope that its existence will demonstrate the utility of such a site to researchers and encourage them to create one of their own. In fact, they have - see “Similar projects” below. Or to relaunch this site in the misty future as a more credentialled site. Or, as an outside possibility - to participate in this one.

Participants are requested to observe the Housekeeping and Policy guidelines, and should be aware of copyright issues, and How to Use LivingThing use this particular piece of wiki software. However, most of it should be obvious, so don’t hold back if you are, for some ineffable reason, feeling eager.

(Please add your own!)

• the Encyclopaedia of Earth
• Complexity Digest
• NESCI complex systems wiki
• DCS-Wiki. The abbreviation DCS stands for “Distributed Computing Systems” or “Distributed and Complex Systems”. The DCS wiki contains topics of current distributed and complex systems research.
• Transdisciplinary wiki: “...collaboration across disciplinarily organised interests. More importantly, it describes a collaborative setting wherein those different disciplinary interests generate the spark of synergy; to generate an enhanced collective intelligence through which to deal with complex real world issues.”
• the "Human Ecology forum", a blog-and-wiki based out of the College of the Atlantic for student discussion of issues in Human Ecology.
• CO-SY-Pedia
• Cranfield University’s complexity science wiki