I’ve become increasingly interested in the topic of organizational knowledge management (i.e. how communities can most effectively store, distill, and share the information they create).
This has manifested in a drive to create a summary for every LW wikitag stub that isn’t behind a “Load More” button click (i.e. among the top 30 tags under each Core Tag). I’ve done 9 so far and I’d love to get some feedback.
Are the summaries I’m writing near the mark of what the community thinks they should be? At the meta level, is there a better way I could leverage my interest in knowledge management / distillation to benefit the community?
I think they are decent! I have quibbles, but they are definitely better than the current state.
If I were you, I would focus on writing descriptions for the concepts and wikitags that are somewhat unique to the rationality community. Nobody is really going to benefit that much from a paragraph defining “social skills”, but one defining “distillation” is a lot more useful.
I personally like them! They don’t specifically benefit me because I already have most of that knowledge, but I think having definitions attached to the tags is far superior to not having them, so I appreciate your efforts here. (And the definitions themselves also looked reasonable, being both concise and accurate as definitions should be.)