AlexU comments on Rationalist wiki, redux - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AlexU 06 April 2009 11:28:42PM 0 points [-]

Is a wiki really needed? Why not just a simple page linking to all the relevant OCB posts as well as Wikipedia entries? It's all in there anyway. This seems unnecessarily duplicative.

Comment author: gwern 07 April 2009 11:53:52PM 3 points [-]

Not necessarily. Think of FAQs for mailing lists as an example. A wiki for a blog, even a group blog, is a bit unusual (at least, I can't think of any), but I don't see why the principle couldn't work. Each LW post is a work by a single author, idiosyncratic and focused on a single aspect. It'd not be surprising if a comprehensive wiki article - which draws on and summarizes/synthesizes each relevant post - could be very useful.

Comment author: badger 07 April 2009 01:54:37AM 1 point [-]

I would also like to keep the articles very minimal and focused primarily collecting references to the relevant OB and LW posts. I think the sheer amount of work that alone will take requires a wiki though. I don't think a single page could cut it, and the sites are hard enough to navigate for someone like me that has followed OB since the beginning.