Randomly select people and order them to improve a specific wiki article. Give then +30 if they do, -30 if they refuse. Such a message is cheap, so it can work on spam economics.
This requires a single someone with authority who's job it is to imropve the LW community. This would fit into the general pattern of this person having such a job and having the power to deputize people.
I need to write a post on this general idea...
Edit: Also what manfred said. The general idea is to make it require less agency to improve LW. Either by having someone supply that agency as a service (my idea) or making the actual job require less (manfred's idea)
Randomly select people and order them to improve a specific wiki article.
Terrible idea. Due to the fact that people who possess the conjunction of the properties (Good at explaining + Understands LW material + Good at reduction) (No, the last two don't imply eachother, IME) are rather rare, there is a very high chance that randomly selecting authors will introduce lots of noise, a good proportion of which might be hidden and very difficult to detect. There's also the chance of introducing accidental anti-epistemology directly into the wiki that gets raised by an order of magnitude or two if this strategy is implemented.
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?