1 I did actually announce this on the Mnemnosyne and Anki mailing lists, but I received no responses. :(
2 I felt timid about advertising this on the mainpage, though I am not sure why in retrospect.
3-5 are good suggestions I hadn't thought of. The question is how to generate similar suggestions for prizes in the future. I suppose 5 is obviously applicable, 4 probably applies to many contests, I'm not sure about 3. Perhaps ask if there are any famous figures in the field I am trying to summarize.
6 feels like it wouldn't be effective to me, but I'm not sure why. I suppose the costs to trying this in the future are low.
Thanks again :)
1 I did actually announce this on the Mnemnosyne and Anki mailing lists, but I received no responses. :(
Whups! So you're right. I replied with news about the verdict.
#2 is definitely something you should try. If there were no real prize, I think people might laugh at an attempt for the main page, but with that much skin in the game... at least, I would expect LessWrongers to respect someone putting a good chunk of money where their mouth is. They seem to've in the past, with reports about bets, prediction market trades, and SIAI donations all getting up...
The Spaced Repetition literature review prize for the best new review of the evidence on Spaced Repetition has ended and the judging panel has made its decision. The prize attracted entries from Duke (entry) and Gwern (entry). After reviewing the submissions separately and then discussing them together, the judging panel unanimously judged Gwern's entry to be the best.
With great pleasure, we now award Gwern the prize of $385.
Anki cards for Gwern's review are available as the shared deck "Gwern Spaced Repetition Lit Review". If you have improvements or alternate decks, post them in the comments.
The three judges, BenLowell, Guy Srinivasan and John Salvatier (me), are Seattle LessWrongers who volunteered to judge the contest.
We thank Duke and Gwern for their submissions, as well as users randomwalker, Antisuji, Dr_Manhattan, Benquo, Nick_Roy for contributing to the prize fund.