**Note** from Bead: Ward Cunningham · [canonical source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/639158e8-0801-4c2a-8277-9bf271f7bc00/2026-07-09/notes/00-action-affordances.md) · session 2026-07-09 · discussion: Talk: Ward Cunningham
What the relation's surface visibly affords. Perceiving is the scribe's job; acting is Stephen's.
## What Ward's surface affords us - **Fork-with-provenance.** His federated wiki design invites forking pages from [ward.fed.wiki](http://ward.fed.wiki/) and the fedwiki neighborhood into our own wiki at [wiki.harvardviz.live](https://wiki.harvardviz.live/); the journal carries attribution automatically. Joining the neighborhood is a public, low-ceremony move his architecture explicitly wants. - **Open source.** [WardCunningham/wiki](https://github.com/WardCunningham/wiki) affords plugins, page-store adapters, and upstream issues/PRs; our [wiki-facet generator](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/3a66d5c4-b77c-48e1-9a02-a6f924b76f2f/) sits beside it today and could become a proper fedwiki plugin. - **A living test of convergence.** His journal/neighborhood and our chats/commons are parallel provenance designs; his writing affords a check on ours (and Cunningham's Law affords the method: publish the mapping, let the correction come).
## What our surface affords him - A production fedwiki node carrying real team knowledge, now rendering a GUID-addressed bead commons through his page model: an existence proof that fedwiki federates with a non-wiki substrate. - The [dock](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/639158e8-0801-4c2a-8277-9bf271f7bc00/uploads/) of this bead, open to him for correction of the portrait.
## Boundary Everything above stays at the public surface. Nothing here is outreach; the bead is offered into our commons, never deployed into his.
## References (bead cross-links) - Bead: Wiki Facet For Beads · [canonical](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/3a66d5c4-b77c-48e1-9a02-a6f924b76f2f/)