1) I think this would be great, but is also really hard. I feel like you would need to build a whole wiki-structure with conflict resolution and moderation norms and collaborative editing features to achieve that kind of thing. But who knows, there might be an elegant and simple implementation that would work that I haven’t thought of.
I think the wiki is an integral feature of LW, such that if the new site lacks a Wiki, I’ll resist moving to the new site.
We are planning to leave the wiki up, and probably restyle it at some point, so it will not be gone. User accounts will no longer be shared though, for the foreseeable future, which I don’t think will be too much of an issue.
But I don’t yet have a model of how to make the wiki in general work well. The current wiki is definitely useful, but I feel that it’s main use has been the creation of sequences and collections of posts, which is now integrated more deeply into the site via the sequences functionality.
The wiki is also useful for defining basic concepts used by this community, and linking to them in posts and comments when you think some of your readers might not be familiar with them. It might also be helpful for outreach, for example our wiki page for decision theory shows up in the first page of Google results for “decision theory”.
This does update me towards the wiki being important. I just pinged Malo on whether I can get access to the LessWrong wiki analytics, so that I can look a bit more into this.
I think the wiki is an integral feature of LW, such that if the new site lacks a Wiki, I’ll resist moving to the new site.
We are planning to leave the wiki up, and probably restyle it at some point, so it will not be gone. User accounts will no longer be shared though, for the foreseeable future, which I don’t think will be too much of an issue.
But I don’t yet have a model of how to make the wiki in general work well. The current wiki is definitely useful, but I feel that it’s main use has been the creation of sequences and collections of posts, which is now integrated more deeply into the site via the sequences functionality.
The wiki is also useful for defining basic concepts used by this community, and linking to them in posts and comments when you think some of your readers might not be familiar with them. It might also be helpful for outreach, for example our wiki page for decision theory shows up in the first page of Google results for “decision theory”.
Oh, that’s cool! I didn’t know that.
This does update me towards the wiki being important. I just pinged Malo on whether I can get access to the LessWrong wiki analytics, so that I can look a bit more into this.
Several people have suggested pmwiki; perhaps you should give it a try?