ciphergoth comments on What isn't the wiki for? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: badger 08 April 2009 02:24:55AM 1 point [-]

I'm mostly concerned about conventions and broad structure, not content, at this point. I agree entirely with the content you have produced (at least as a rough draft, as you acknowledge). Content can be refined as we go, but I feel it's important to settle questions about overall structure early on.

For any particular topic, I'd like to see two paired articles:

  • "topic name" with a short description, references to Wikipedia, standard sources, and a straight list of related OB/LW articles, written in NPOV
  • "topic name study guide" with content like what you have done, written in a conversational tone

This might seem like a bikeshed argument, but short names make it easier to search for a topic or link to it from memory. I also like the explicit link between the reference and teaching articles if reasonable pairs exist.

Is there another short description that would work better than "study guide"? I can think of "outline", just "guide", "syllabus", "open questions", "questions".

Does anyone else want to chime in on this? Ciphergoth?

Comment author: ciphergoth 08 April 2009 08:29:24AM -1 points [-]

I'm still unconvinced of the merits of the whole plan, but several people seem interested and I'd be delighted to learn that I'm mistaken and good will come of it, so I'm just standing back and seeing what gets built.