Information for Contributors

Essential Guidelines

Types of Contributors

There are many types of people who may be Contributors to EmergeWiki, as well as many types of knowledge that they may contribute.

We welcome any and all Contributors who will follow our guidelines and who can help people better understand the wide range of ancient and contemporary traditions and approaches there are to Emergent Phenomena as well as how the contemporary global clinical mainstream may add value in relation to these.

In this way, Contributors may be: clinicians and other healthcare providers, scientists, therapists, traditional and contemporary teachers and practitioners, and scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds and disciplines, as well as non-academic/non-clinical/non-traditional people with useful knowledge and expertise to share, and people who hold multiple perspectives across these who can help bridge these diverse perspectives.

Types of Contributions

EmergeWiki is here to facilitate the deep synthesis of primary sources into actionable recommendations that scale globally and facilitate good outcomes related to Emergent Phenomena in clinical settings, public health contexts, as well as in the field, meaning in diverse ceremonies and traditional practice contexts, on retreats, in families and communities, and globally. Primary sources may include, but are not limited to

References and Citations

It is essential that we properly document our information sources. As this platform is built on MediaWiki, the same platform that powers Wikipedia, and given the general familiarity with these formats, we will generally follow the standard reference and citation guidelines from Wikipedia.

Evidence Quality

It is also essential that we provide clear information on the Level of Evidence of any clinical or policy recommendations found here. Evidence quality and how it applies to both contemporary and evolving clinical practice and public policy is a complex topic.

Similarly complex is the topic of exactly how to weigh and categorize various types of evidence we have available from various Emergent Traditions, some of which have been evolving and iterating on their systems for thousands and maybe tens of thousands of years with a wide range of epistemic standards and methods. We will need to refine and develop Approaches to Traditional Evidence.

We also face a new and rapidly evolving question in how to weight and categorize the recommendations of various LLM/AI platforms, which may aggregate and synthesize vast amounts of information of variable quality, with, on the one hand, possible "hallucinations" and errors, yet, on the other hand, profound insights based on amounts of information that ordinary humans might find beyond their capacity to learn and remember, let alone cohere. This question becomes more complex as more and more LLM/AI content is generated and publicly posted that is fed back back into the training models for next-generation models, with the EmergeWiki contributing to those models.