AnnaSalamon comments on Rationalist Wiki - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 April 2009 12:25:51AM 5 points [-]

A rationality wiki seems like a nice thing to have, but I wonder if the current wiki framework is sufficient unto the task. I would like to see comments with threading and voting on the wiki page, and be able to publish the wiki page as though a blog post - which might be a small task of integration, or might be a very large one. I tried to build a wiki earlier, on a certain subject that may not be named, and it sorta petered out. I'd love to have the rationalist equivalent of TVTropes but I'm not entirely sure how to go about getting it - it might require a larger audience to start with, for one thing.

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 06 April 2009 12:46:43AM 4 points [-]

I agree we'll want something better when we can get it, but what do you think of me going ahead and adding content now? I'd really like to be building something more cumulative and newcomer-accessible (because more organized or less tangled) than LW. Should I start contributing and expect the content to be later ported somewhere better, or should I wait?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 April 2009 12:50:43AM 4 points [-]

See the question about scraping - though I guess so long as the text is in standard wiki format, we could port it manually in the worst case.

I could wish for better integration with LW, but the developers are busy... sure, go ahead.