[e-lang] [ofe-topic] broken window theory (Re: Wiki?)

[zooko at zooko.com]

 MarkM wrote:
>
> <amusing-but-off-topic-note>
> I followed you there until the end. "Broken windows theory"? I thought, "What 
> does this have to do with Hazlett's "Economics in One Lesson"? A bit of web 
> searching led me to realize that I had not known about "broken windows 
> theory". That it is interesting. And that I never knew I didn't known it, 
> because till now, I always assumed people were talking about (what I now see 
> is properly called) the "parable of the broken window".
> </amusing-but-off-topic-note>

Thanks for pointing this out, MarkM.

By the way, Broken Window Theory may or may not explain problems in programming
language wikis, but most sociologists now believe that it does not explain real
crime rates and real windows.

The wikipedia article seems like a fair summary:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixing_Broken_Windows

Regards,

Zooko