I think I just wasn't clear enough, because that is actually what I meant for point 2: We have a monthly Discussion post on LW where people talk about editing the wiki. (i.e. -Should there be a section on the history of this concept here? What work needs to be done to page A? etc)
However this is different than Point 6 which IS more like what you think point 2 was like (we make a weekly discussion post on a specific article, as something to read and discuss.)
Ah, yeah. I misunderstood "ongoing conversation". I don't like having wiki-editing discussion split off the wiki at all, but otherwise I like the idea. If there was a monthly Discussion post with a "featured article" - not in the Wikipedia featured-on-the-front-page sense, but a single article to collaborate on, that would likely help focus the community effort.
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?