roryokane comments on Procedural Knowledge Gaps - Less Wrong

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Comment author: roryokane 11 February 2011 02:41:37AM *  10 points [-]

Many of the instructions on this thread would fit well on wikiHow. It would be better to put them there than on Less Wrong Wiki or a new site because wikiHow is already known by more people as a source of information on basic things.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 11 February 2011 10:31:23AM 1 point [-]

Aside from time (a non-trivial consideration) is there any reason not to put them on both wikiHow and the LW wiki?

Comment author: TheOtherDave 11 February 2011 02:22:34PM 4 points [-]

A hard-earned lesson from my days as a technical writer: "a man with two watches never knows the time." That is, any piece of information maintained in two places will sooner or later progress inconsistently.

Putting it in one place and a pointer to it in the other place might be better.

Comment author: CronoDAS 11 February 2011 03:55:43AM 0 points [-]

That's kind of what I was hinting at.