I generally disagree with the idea that fancy widgets and more processes are the main thing keeping the LW wiki from being good. I think the main problem is that not a lot of people are currently contributing to it.
The things that discourage me from contributing more look like:
-There are a lot of pages. If there are 700 bad pages and I write one really good page, there are still 699 bad pages.
-I don't have a good sense of which pages are most important. If I put a bunch of effort into a particular page, is that one that people are going to care about?
-I don't get much feedback about whether anyone saw the page after I edited it - karma for edits basically just comes from the tag dashboard and the frontpage activity feed.
So the improvements I would look for would be like:
-Expose view counts for wiki pages somewhere.
-Some sort of bat-signal on the tag dashboard for if a page is getting a lot of views but still has a bunch of TODO flags set.
-Big high-quality wiki page rewrites get promoted to frontpage or something.
-Someone of authority actually goes through and sets the "High Priority" flag on, say, 20 pages that they know are important and neglected.
-Some sort of event or bounty to drive more participation.
oh this is great, agreed on all points.
(but what if they just embed logseq)I generally disagree with the idea that fancy widgets and more processes are the main thing keeping the LW wiki from being good. I think the main problem is that not a lot of people are currently contributing to it.
The things that discourage me from contributing more look like:
-There are a lot of pages. If there are 700 bad pages and I write one really good page, there are still 699 bad pages.
-I don't have a good sense of which pages are most important. If I put a bunch of effort into a particular page, is that one that people are going to care about?
-I don't get much feedback about whether anyone saw the page after I edited it - karma for edits basically just comes from the tag dashboard and the frontpage activity feed.
So the improvements I would look for would be like:
-Expose view counts for wiki pages somewhere.
-Some sort of bat-signal on the tag dashboard for if a page is getting a lot of views but still has a bunch of TODO flags set.
-Big high-quality wiki page rewrites get promoted to frontpage or something.
-Someone of authority actually goes through and sets the "High Priority" flag on, say, 20 pages that they know are important and neglected.
-Some sort of event or bounty to drive more participation.
Nathan, I assume this is posted also on the EA Forum?
No, they don't let me post to their wiki like this and I haven't had enough success to publicise it yet.