How to incentivize LW wiki edits?

lukeprog

How can we incentivize more productive activity on the LW wiki? There are many articles that could be created or expanded.

Are there previous discussions on this?

One suggestion: We could add a "good explanation!" button at the bottom of each article, and every time it is clicked, the user account responsible for the plurality of words in the current draft of the article gets 10 karma points. This requires that LW and LW-wiki accounts be synced, first.

How can this suggestion be improved?

What other suggestions do people have?

How can we incentivize more productive activity on the LW wiki? There are many articles that could be created or expanded.

Are there previous discussions on this?

How can this suggestion be improved?

What other suggestions do people have?

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

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.

14[anonymous]13y

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

2lincolnquirk13y

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.