Is a wiki really needed? Why not just a simple page linking to all the relevant OCB posts as well as Wikipedia entries? It’s all in there anyway. This seems unnecessarily duplicative.
Not necessarily. Think of FAQs for mailing lists as an example. A wiki for a blog, even a group blog, is a bit unusual (at least, I can’t think of any), but I don’t see why the principle couldn’t work. Each LW post is a work by a single author, idiosyncratic and focused on a single aspect. It’d not be surprising if a comprehensive wiki article—which draws on and summarizes/synthesizes each relevant post—could be very useful.
I would also like to keep the articles very minimal and focused primarily collecting references to the relevant OB and LW posts. I think the sheer amount of work that alone will take requires a wiki though. I don’t think a single page could cut it, and the sites are hard enough to navigate for someone like me that has followed OB since the beginning.
Is a wiki really needed? Why not just a simple page linking to all the relevant OCB posts as well as Wikipedia entries? It’s all in there anyway. This seems unnecessarily duplicative.
Not necessarily. Think of FAQs for mailing lists as an example. A wiki for a blog, even a group blog, is a bit unusual (at least, I can’t think of any), but I don’t see why the principle couldn’t work. Each LW post is a work by a single author, idiosyncratic and focused on a single aspect. It’d not be surprising if a comprehensive wiki article—which draws on and summarizes/synthesizes each relevant post—could be very useful.
I would also like to keep the articles very minimal and focused primarily collecting references to the relevant OB and LW posts. I think the sheer amount of work that alone will take requires a wiki though. I don’t think a single page could cut it, and the sites are hard enough to navigate for someone like me that has followed OB since the beginning.