It’s really not clear what the purpose of the wiki is. When you search LessWrong for “Politics is the Mind-Killer”, the first result is this blog post and the second result is this wiki article. The primary thing the second has is a bunch of links- but the blog posts have navigation links too. If there’s a clearer purpose, then people will be much more willing to post stuff to it, because they’ll know whether or not it’s appropriate. I only add stuff I write to the wiki if someone asks me to or it’s obvious it fits (like adding my book reviews to this list).
Make the wiki no longer think links to LessWrong are external links. When I realized that this page hadn’t been updated in six months, I decided to adopt it. I quickly learned that every update requires convincing the system that, no, I’m not a spammer, and my desire to continue maintaining that page is rapidly fading. (I’m currently only updating it monthly, when it probably should be updated at least every two weeks.) I know MinibearRex has been through four or five wiki accounts because of various hassles associated with links and the Sequences Rerun.
Every now and then, the Wiki seems to decide that my IP address is spamming the Wiki, and autoblock it. Sometimes it goes away in a day or so, and sometimes it doesn’t. In the event that it doesn’t, making a new username seems to resolve the issue, for some reason. I’m currently on account number 4, named “Wellthisisaninconvenience”. Which is different from my previous account, “Thisisinconvenient”.
It’s really not clear what the purpose of the wiki is. When you search LessWrong for “Politics is the Mind-Killer”, the first result is this blog post and the second result is this wiki article. The primary thing the second has is a bunch of links- but the blog posts have navigation links too. If there’s a clearer purpose, then people will be much more willing to post stuff to it, because they’ll know whether or not it’s appropriate. I only add stuff I write to the wiki if someone asks me to or it’s obvious it fits (like adding my book reviews to this list).
Make the wiki no longer think links to LessWrong are external links. When I realized that this page hadn’t been updated in six months, I decided to adopt it. I quickly learned that every update requires convincing the system that, no, I’m not a spammer, and my desire to continue maintaining that page is rapidly fading. (I’m currently only updating it monthly, when it probably should be updated at least every two weeks.) I know MinibearRex has been through four or five wiki accounts because of various hassles associated with links and the Sequences Rerun.
Every now and then, the Wiki seems to decide that my IP address is spamming the Wiki, and autoblock it. Sometimes it goes away in a day or so, and sometimes it doesn’t. In the event that it doesn’t, making a new username seems to resolve the issue, for some reason. I’m currently on account number 4, named “Wellthisisaninconvenience”. Which is different from my previous account, “Thisisinconvenient”.