> The practice of capturing, organising, and retrieving [[Knowledge|knowledge]] across multiple contributors who share one body of knowledge rather than each maintaining their own.
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Extends [[Knowledge management]] to the case where the producers, reviewers, and consumers of an artefact are not the same person. The shift introduces problems personal knowledge management does not face: ownership of artefacts, conflicts during concurrent edits, drift between mental models, and the need to capture [[Tacit knowledge]] before the people holding it leave the group. It is what holds an organisation's knowledge together across people, time, and tool changes.
## Checklist
A system meeting collective knowledge management must satisfy [[Knowledge management]]'s baseline plus three additions that personal knowledge management does not face:
- [ ] [[Knowledge management#^checklist]] ![[Knowledge management#^checklist]]
- [ ] [[Securability]]
- [ ] [[Ownership clarity]]
- [ ] [[Agent-readiness]]
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