I am pretty sure that LW would pass the notability test, as it is linked from many online sources, including dozens of unaffiliated blogs and in passing from an occasional news media article. To start, one could add LW sections to the EY’s wiki entry or that of MIRI. Certainly Google search considers LW worthy of extra links.
Another good starting step would be to create a “what others wrote about us” page at LessWrong wiki, and collect things written about us there. (Without the things written by obvious haters. Things which are merely misleading should probably be mentioned there too, with our comment on how specifically they are misleading. They still add to notability.) We will have a better idea of our notability, and if necessary, we could use it as a proof if there is a debate later at Wikipedia.
Collecting positive reviews by others is a good idea even without Wikipedia. It’s a social proof.
My intuition is based on my experience writing stuff for Wikipedia (and having some of it deleted). In cases where a topic just barely passes the notability threshold, stuffing a lot of links can backfire. See for instance the discussion related to the deletion of Cal Newport’s Wikipedia page, which I created with loads of references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Cal_Newport
Of course, you (or anybody else) is welcome to draft stuff that could go into Wikipedia about LessWrong. I’d love to be disproved :).
As I said, I’d start by adding a LW section to the other two pages. This should not be a problem, since the notability standard is not nearly as strict for the content. Once the section grows large enough, you can add a notice suggesting a separate entry and see how it is received.
I am pretty sure that LW would pass the notability test, as it is linked from many online sources, including dozens of unaffiliated blogs and in passing from an occasional news media article. To start, one could add LW sections to the EY’s wiki entry or that of MIRI. Certainly Google search considers LW worthy of extra links.
Another good starting step would be to create a “what others wrote about us” page at LessWrong wiki, and collect things written about us there. (Without the things written by obvious haters. Things which are merely misleading should probably be mentioned there too, with our comment on how specifically they are misleading. They still add to notability.) We will have a better idea of our notability, and if necessary, we could use it as a proof if there is a debate later at Wikipedia.
Collecting positive reviews by others is a good idea even without Wikipedia. It’s a social proof.
My intuition is based on my experience writing stuff for Wikipedia (and having some of it deleted). In cases where a topic just barely passes the notability threshold, stuffing a lot of links can backfire. See for instance the discussion related to the deletion of Cal Newport’s Wikipedia page, which I created with loads of references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Cal_Newport
Of course, you (or anybody else) is welcome to draft stuff that could go into Wikipedia about LessWrong. I’d love to be disproved :).
As I said, I’d start by adding a LW section to the other two pages. This should not be a problem, since the notability standard is not nearly as strict for the content. Once the section grows large enough, you can add a notice suggesting a separate entry and see how it is received.