I agree these design patterns aren’t followed by Wikipedia, and that Wikipedia is abnormally successful for a wiki, but I also think that due to network and founder effects Wikipedia should not necessarily be looked to as a role model here. It could be a nicer experience without all those stubs, but it doesn’t need to be to survive.
since the central problem of any wiki is getting a critical mass and tagging is much easier than writing
I assume you know more here, since you do more here than I do, but I’ll still argue from my own model.
This intuitively doesn’t seem right to me. I personally at least would prefer there be a few very good & very developed articles than many very bad & useless articles. What I think I’ve learned by looking at the LessWrong wiki page is that to a very good approximation, every article that wasn’t imported from arbital sucks, so if I have a concept in mind I want to link a good explainer to, or even just a collection of information presented in an easy-to-digest order, I should never look at tags and always just search LessWrong posts directly for a good explainer. If it doesn’t exist as a good LessWrong post, then it definitely won’t exist as a good tag.
I agree these design patterns aren’t followed by Wikipedia, and that Wikipedia is abnormally successful for a wiki, but I also think that due to network and founder effects Wikipedia should not necessarily be looked to as a role model here. It could be a nicer experience without all those stubs, but it doesn’t need to be to survive.
I assume you know more here, since you do more here than I do, but I’ll still argue from my own model.
This intuitively doesn’t seem right to me. I personally at least would prefer there be a few very good & very developed articles than many very bad & useless articles. What I think I’ve learned by looking at the LessWrong wiki page is that to a very good approximation, every article that wasn’t imported from arbital sucks, so if I have a concept in mind I want to link a good explainer to, or even just a collection of information presented in an easy-to-digest order, I should never look at tags and always just search LessWrong posts directly for a good explainer. If it doesn’t exist as a good LessWrong post, then it definitely won’t exist as a good tag.