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.
I don't like having wiki-editing discussion split off the wiki at all, but otherwise I like the idea.
Thank you! I would agree with you IF there were already ongoing conversations on the wiki articles, but this doesn't seem to be the case. Even the main page only has three discussion comments on it. I don't feel like I could ask a question or write a comment on the (empty) wiki discussion page for an article and have it read by more than one or two people (the wiki mods who read everything). OTOH, if I posted a question on a wiki thread in LW Discussion,...
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?