Assess the convergence of divergent governance systems

Establish whether different governance systems for Social.Wiki sites will often produce differences analogous to those between nightly and stable releases of open-source software, with varying trade-offs between update speed and vetting.

Background

Plural governance allows different users to resolve the same human-readable site name to different site versions. The authors hypothesize that these differences will commonly resemble release-channel differences in open-source software: some governance systems may update rapidly while others may prioritize vetting and stability. This is explicitly presented as a conjecture rather than an established result.