Here we identify multiple ways in which federating is implemented and facilitated in federated wiki.
Starting at the bottom: - **paragraphs** federate with paragraphs - in the same wiki site or in other sites. Computational processes can be coded into page plugins/paragraphs. - **pages** federate - through being adventitiously forked (migrating) into the context of other sites - perhaps sites of other writers, perhaps the author's own. - pages visually federate in the browser and in the reader's awareness, by being viewable in the same browser tab, inside **the lineup** of other sites' pages - pages and sites federate by explicit links - of course: this is what **hypertext** and wiki are all about. - sites federate the browser (where much of the computational work goes on) with **the server**. Some functions live on the server (producing 'green' wiki pages in the lineup). - farms (servers) federate with farms. All wiki pages are in one **'wikiverse'**. - writers federate with writers, using wiki's capacity as an awareness engine. They can form **'pods'** and other kinds of creative associations.
It's federation, all the way down :)