Payment oriented:
Funding for SigInst, LW and CFAR are dismally low, even by the standards of regular small nonprofits, and even more catastrophically so with respect to the proportional value and importance of their work.
You'd have to explain and demonstrate in detail how a specific monetary reward strategy is beneficial as a whole before anyone would agree to implement them.
I don't see any strategy that contains any equilibrium where the content and quality of the wiki is substantially improved in a manner sufficient to outweigh the opportunity cost the required amount of money would incur on other projects.
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?