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Wikis provide new possibilities for collaborative knowledge building with artifacts. This paper presents a theoretical framework for describing and understanding the processes which lead to collaborative knowledge building. The model borrows from the systemic approach of Luhmann as well as from Piaget's theory of equilibration. It describes people's learning activities as processes of externalization and internalization. Individual learning happens through internal processes of assimilation and accommodation, whereas changes in a wiki's information space are due to activities of external assimilation and external accommodation. All these equilibration activities are caused by subjectively perceived differences between an individuals' knowledge space and the wiki's information space. Differences of medium level are considered to cause cognitive conflicts which activate the described processes of equilibration.