gwern comments on Rationalist wiki, redux - Less Wrong
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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.
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.