Annoyance comments on Proposal: Use the Wiki for Concepts - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 April 2009 05:21AM

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Comment author: Annoyance 22 April 2009 03:28:22PM 1 point [-]

TV Tropes is a collection of content and references to content, not links.

The Wiki should link to Less Wrong, certainly, but not substitute Less Wrong links for original content.

Every article at Wikipedia is original content that concerns and is about important content. The articles at the rationality wiki should be original content that is about important content; they should include links to original work here but not consist of links to original work here, as a rule.

Comment author: thomblake 22 April 2009 03:38:24PM 2 points [-]

Well, it depends what you mean by 'original content'. One of the Wikipedia standards is 'no original research', which I think is more what Eliezer was trying to get at here. While original articles containing stuff from LW belong on the wiki, none of the concepts, arguments, or explanations should be created whole-cloth for the wiki. Rather, anything original should be a post here which the wiki can then reference if it's relevant.