I guess I should say why I'm concerned with the idea... Precedents should be set sooner rather than later. If the wiki does eventually get more traffic, it's much easier to follow comments when they're organized by topic than by time period, if at all. Maybe some sort of bootstrap method would work, though.
The former Wikipedia editor in me doesn't like the copy-paste solution, as it bypasses the wiki edit tracking system and the comment thread system here. (If you thought retributive downvoting was bad, this can potentially be much worse if someone has a grudge and is clever about it.)
All this talk is making me want to create a wiki account; I will do so tonight when I get home.
Edit: fixed link markup
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?