I just went ahead and made the wikipedia page (as a stub article with no content except a sentence, a link to LW and a link to establish notability). Please feel free to add content to it.
Please don’t, then maybe it can get speedily deleted. There is nothing that gets Wikipedians more up in arms than other sites doing clueless advocacy campaigns like this one. It’s viewed on a par with the way certain countries view human rights advocates discussing their “matters internal to their country”, and with much better justification for doing so.
Remember that as soon as you add positive content to this page, you are simply creating the opportunity for other people to say negative things, backed up by even more citations than you had for the positive things. Then where are you? Smack dab in the middle of arguments-as-soldiers territory, that’s where.
Repeat after me: if I live in a world where LessWrong is positively notable by Wikipedia’s standards (not LessWrong’s standards), then I want to know that. But if I live in a world where it isn’t, then I want to know that, too.
Guess which world we actually live in?
Would we want WIkipedians to come over here and tell us what they think should be considered quality content on LessWrong? I don’t think so.
I just went ahead and made the wikipedia page (as a stub article with no content except a sentence, a link to LW and a link to establish notability). Please feel free to add content to it.
Please don’t, then maybe it can get speedily deleted. There is nothing that gets Wikipedians more up in arms than other sites doing clueless advocacy campaigns like this one. It’s viewed on a par with the way certain countries view human rights advocates discussing their “matters internal to their country”, and with much better justification for doing so.
Remember that as soon as you add positive content to this page, you are simply creating the opportunity for other people to say negative things, backed up by even more citations than you had for the positive things. Then where are you? Smack dab in the middle of arguments-as-soldiers territory, that’s where.
Repeat after me: if I live in a world where LessWrong is positively notable by Wikipedia’s standards (not LessWrong’s standards), then I want to know that. But if I live in a world where it isn’t, then I want to know that, too.
Guess which world we actually live in?
Would we want WIkipedians to come over here and tell us what they think should be considered quality content on LessWrong? I don’t think so.
I expanded the page somewhat. There’s a good chance it’ll get deleted, so I kept a copy in my userspace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vipul/LessWrong