Manfred comments on How to incentivize LW wiki edits? - Less Wrong

8 Post author: lukeprog 05 December 2012 04:39AM

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Comment author: Manfred 05 December 2012 05:06:24AM 32 points [-]

Make it easier, or automatic, for people with a LW account to have a LW-wiki account.

Comment author: Khoth 05 December 2012 02:17:09PM 14 points [-]

Automatic would be best. It could help with the spam issue too - only allow wiki editing to users with positive karma.

Comment author: beoShaffer 05 December 2012 05:36:09AM 6 points [-]

I believe this would be enough to spur considerable editing by itself. I have tried to edit the wiki on several occasions, but my college was IP blocked and I decided that the additional effort needed to create an account anyway wasn't worth it for a trivial edit.

Comment author: Emile 05 December 2012 03:39:24PM 4 points [-]

Yep. People have wanted this for ages (I think it's brought up at each mention of the wiki), though I udnerstand there are probably technical reasons for which it's complicated (the wiki and reddit codebases probably handle auth in pretty different ways).

Anyway, this would be a prerequisite to luke's proposal on karma - it would be much simpler AND useful.

Comment author: lincolnquirk 05 December 2012 06:20:56AM 1 point [-]

Seconded. I actually DID get an account at one point, but it was a lot of work and I almost bailed, and I could easily imagine many others not getting as far.