I could be wrong, but I don't remember Eliezer ever suggesting we avoid making a separate wiki page for each article.

In fact, his idea for "short summaries on the wiki, linking to full posts on the forum" seems to me like a recommendation to do exactly that.

What I was planning to do was:

*have a script to automatically generate wiki page stubs for every new LW post *have the wiki users fill in the summary for the article *have the wiki users add any appropriate category tags to the article's wiki page - if there are other articles on the same topic, then this will link to them. maybe have some way to graphically show the connections.

There was some discussion about requiring the LW forum posts to link to the wiki pages for the concepts, rather than the articles, but it looks like the best option is to go ahead and make pages for everything. Make a wiki page for each concept, and a wiki page for each article that discusses that concept. Make the concept pages link to the article pages, and vice versa. Allow the LW posts to link either to the article wikipage, or the concept's wikipage.

Also, I would recommend updating all of the pages currently on the LW forum to link to the article's wikipage, rather than the article itself.

I would also recommend considering methods to integrate the wiki content into the main LW forum. RSS feeds of recent changes is one obvious example of this sort of integration.

The script for automatically generating the wiki pages would include: *Article name *Author *Original site *Date posted *Permanent link *a list of the article's tags, which will become categories in the wiki *a list of articles that the article refers to, used for automatically generating the dependency graph *a tag indicating that the page has been automatically created, and needs someone to fill in the article's summary

I think it would be a good idea to have different kinds of tags marking the different kinds of dependencies. For example: *"Required Reading" - an article that requires on a concept defined in a previous post *"Side-topic" - an article that links to another article as a side-topic *"Supplementary Reading" - an article that links to another article for more details about a topic, but isn't required to understand the article

Another thing I just realized: a dependency graph could also help avoid, or at least reveal, circular dependencies. Though, on second thought, the fact that LW posts can currently only link to older posts already prevents circular dependencies.

For more discussion about the dependency graphs, and other ideas for the wiki, see: http://lesswrong.wikia.com/wiki/How_We_Can_Use_This_Wiki