I'm telling you stuff that is well known to work for bringing wikis to life, you're telling me that looking to experience is cargo culting and that the LW wiki is a special case for reasons you aren't stating. Someone is actually going to have to do stuff for it to work, and so far you're not offering anything whatsoever, neither ideas nor actual participation. You're treating me offering ideas on what has worked for other wikis as if it's a threat. I submit that this is a problematic attitude which will leave your wiki as dead as it is - treating ideas first as threats is something lots of wikis have died of.
What is your vision of what the wiki is for? What forms of usefulness to people do you consider a good idea? I'm asking you to make positive statements of your own, rather than why other people's ideas are bad.
As an aside, you are systematically not being technical when leading an argument. You are misrepresenting the discussion a lot and making other errors, like offering false dichotomies or appealing by connotation. This reduces the efficiency of communication, for example I left our conversation of the wiki unresolved for this reason.
So, as people have probably noticed, there's fairly regular vandalism on the LW wiki which has been taking a while to address and which regular users have been trying to cope with by moving and blanking pages. This is a little silly - it doesn't resolve the problem and just generates more noise in the RSS feed for Recent Changes (to which I've long subscribed).
We need more administrators.
I suggest myself. I'm a longtime LWer with high karma, so I can't be too crazy. More to the point, I currently handle vandalism as an administrator on the Haskell wiki and have done so ~July 2010; I was formerly an administrator on the English Wikipedia (where I have been a contributor since ~2005); nor have I abused access that has been given to me elsewhere (eg. my shell account on http://community.haskell.org, the commit bit on the PredictionBook.com repo, etc.). In general, I think of myself as a wiki-savvy and trustworthy guy.
Administrators are created by bureaucrats; there are currently 3. Rather than simply message Yudkowsky or Matt of Trike, I thought I'd make my request public along the line of Wikipedia's Requests for Adminship.
If people object, please leave comments; if there are any other users who would like to be admins (David Gerard comes to mind as someone I know from Wikipedia and would trust as a LW wiki admin), likewise.