Ah, yeah. I misunderstood “ongoing conversation”. I don’t like having wiki-editing discussion split off the wiki at all, but otherwise I like the idea. If there was a monthly Discussion post with a “featured article”—not in the Wikipedia featured-on-the-front-page sense, but a single article to collaborate on, that would likely help focus the community effort.
I don’t like having wiki-editing discussion split off the wiki at all, but otherwise I like the idea.
Thank you! I would agree with you IF there were already ongoing conversations on the wiki articles, but this doesn’t seem to be the case. Even the main page only has three discussion comments on it. I don’t feel like I could ask a question or write a comment on the (empty) wiki discussion page for an article and have it read by more than one or two people (the wiki mods who read everything). OTOH, if I posted a question on a wiki thread in LW Discussion, I feel like a significant amount of people would read it, and I would get feedback.
Would it solve your concern if, at the end of the month, when the next wiki thread is open, all the conversations are copy and pasted to the relevant wiki discussion page? That way, if someone in the future comes with the same question, they can check the wiki article’s discussion page to see what has been said already.
(Note: I realize that this conversation is hampered by the fact that there is the LW Discussion forum, and the wiki articles’ discussion pages, and that you have to constantly be clarifying which one you meant, which gets a little wordy. Sorry :P )
I guess I should say why I’m concerned with the idea… Precedents should be set sooner rather than later. If the wiki does eventually get more traffic, it’s much easier to follow comments when they’re organized by topic than by time period, if at all. Maybe some sort of bootstrap method would work, though.
The former Wikipedia editor in me doesn’t like the copy-paste solution, as it bypasses the wiki edit tracking system and the comment thread system here. (If you thought retributive downvoting was bad, this can potentially be much worse if someone has a grudge and is clever about it.)
All this talk is making me want to create a wiki account; I will do so tonight when I get home.
Ah, yeah. I misunderstood “ongoing conversation”. I don’t like having wiki-editing discussion split off the wiki at all, but otherwise I like the idea. If there was a monthly Discussion post with a “featured article”—not in the Wikipedia featured-on-the-front-page sense, but a single article to collaborate on, that would likely help focus the community effort.
Thank you! I would agree with you IF there were already ongoing conversations on the wiki articles, but this doesn’t seem to be the case. Even the main page only has three discussion comments on it. I don’t feel like I could ask a question or write a comment on the (empty) wiki discussion page for an article and have it read by more than one or two people (the wiki mods who read everything). OTOH, if I posted a question on a wiki thread in LW Discussion, I feel like a significant amount of people would read it, and I would get feedback.
Would it solve your concern if, at the end of the month, when the next wiki thread is open, all the conversations are copy and pasted to the relevant wiki discussion page? That way, if someone in the future comes with the same question, they can check the wiki article’s discussion page to see what has been said already.
(Note: I realize that this conversation is hampered by the fact that there is the LW Discussion forum, and the wiki articles’ discussion pages, and that you have to constantly be clarifying which one you meant, which gets a little wordy. Sorry :P )
I guess I should say why I’m concerned with the idea… Precedents should be set sooner rather than later. If the wiki does eventually get more traffic, it’s much easier to follow comments when they’re organized by topic than by time period, if at all. Maybe some sort of bootstrap method would work, though.
The former Wikipedia editor in me doesn’t like the copy-paste solution, as it bypasses the wiki edit tracking system and the comment thread system here. (If you thought retributive downvoting was bad, this can potentially be much worse if someone has a grudge and is clever about it.)
All this talk is making me want to create a wiki account; I will do so tonight when I get home.
Edit: fixed link markup