Orphan Gems
Pages in the source OGM Wiki that are referenced often but written sparsely — the wiki keeps pointing at them, but no one has filled them in.
These are the highest-leverage candidates for community write-up: each link to one of these pages is an implicit promise that there's more there to find. The numbers below are inbound [[link]] counts; the body sizes are character counts (for context: a paragraph is ~500 chars).
Strong gems (4+ inbound links)
Jerry Michalski — 33 inbound links, ~965-char body
The most-linked person in the wiki by a very wide margin. The current source page is short. A proper write-up — Jerry's Brain, the Nuggets, his role in the OGM bootstrap, his connections — would unlock dozens of references across the wiki.
Source: People/Jerry Michalski.md
Creating a NeoBook (start here) — 6 inbound, ~548-char body
Six pages send readers here as the entry point to the NeoBook process. The page itself is a stub. This is a structural orphan: it's the front door to a whole sub-area (NeoBooks Ops) but currently doesn't open.
Source: NeoBooks Ops/Creating a NeoBook (start here).md
Pete's Blog by Peter Kaminski — 5 inbound, ~279-char body
A blog hub with five inbound links and almost no content. Either a placeholder or an indexing convention not yet populated.
Source: ogm-wiki/Blogs/Pete's Blog by Peter Kaminski/
Design Bible — 4 inbound, 14-char body
Fourteen characters. The shortest substantive orphan in the wiki. Four pages reference an OGM Design Bible that doesn't exist.
Source: OGM Topics Ops/Design Bible.md
Marley Production Process — 4 inbound, ~133-char body
The Marley project (book publishing infrastructure) references its own production process from four pages, but the process itself isn't written down.
Source: Projects/Marley/Marley Production Process.md
Nuggets, Narratives, and Points of View — 4 inbound, ~491-char body
A conceptual frame that recurs in OGM writing — the relationship between atomic Nuggets (Jerry's Brain), longer Narratives, and the Point of View that organizes them. Four references; underdeveloped.
Source: Information Tools/Nuggets, Narratives, and Points of View.md
FAQ, Entity-Member Relationship — 4 inbound, ~595-char body
A template for organizational membership FAQs, referenced four times but never expanded into a usable artifact.
Source: Templates/FAQ, Entity-Member Relationship.md
Roles — 4 inbound, ~1054-char body
OGM Topics Ops "Roles" page — referenced from four places but only outlines roles, doesn't describe them substantively.
Source: OGM Topics Ops/Roles.md
Quick First Book — 4 inbound, ~1087-char body
The "Quick First Book" project (a Marley application) is referenced four times but the project page is small.
Source: Quick First Book/Quick First Book.md
Mid-tier gems (2-3 inbound links)
These are referenced multiple times but underdeveloped. Listed for completeness:
| Page | Inbound | Body chars |
|---|---|---|
| Thinking like a NeoBook | 3 | 201 |
| Decision Making Processes | 3 | 429 |
| Braneframe | 2 | 11 |
| Structuring a NeoBook | 2 | 23 |
| Pairagraph | 2 | 27 |
| Massive Wiki | 2 | 42 |
| Rob's Blog by Rob O'Keefe | 2 | 69 |
| OGM Stewards | 2 | 69 |
| Incipient Link | 2 | 84 |
| FairShare Commons | 2 | 98 |
| Marley FAQ | 2 | 98 |
| Exporting a NeoBook | 2 | 159 |
| Governance Model Comparisons | 2 | 356 |
| Navigate Towards Truth For The Good Of All | 2 | 411 |
| Collaborating to Create Your NeoBook | 2 | 436 |
| Naming | 2 | 447 |
| Focused SoW | 2 | 645 |
| Chatham House Rules | 2 | 658 |
| OGM Community Patterns | 2 | 1100 |
| Chunking | 2 | 1213 |
Patterns that emerge
- NeoBooks is the most-orphan-gem-heavy area. Six different NeoBooks pages are referenced but underdeveloped. NeoBooks may be a project area where the navigation got built before the substance.
- OGM Topics Ops also clusters here. Design Bible and Roles are two of the strongest gems and both live in OGM Topics Ops.
- Process documents stay thin. Most orphan gems are process descriptions (how to do X), not concept pages. Concepts get written up; processes stay as stubs.
- People are dramatically under-served. Jerry's 33 inbound links into a 965-char page is the single starkest gap in the wiki.
Source: computed from the wikilink graph of ogm-wiki at build time. Methodology in Details About This Wiki.