Sorry, I of course meant to say here “widely-used wikis” or “successful wikis”, though I feel like it was reasonably implied from context.
The activity levels of the wikis you link do indeed vary widely. Some of them are basically dead, others seem to see lots of activity. Some examples:
Scholarpedia (one article in all of 2025):
Proteopedia (lots of activity)
Wikis are a totally useful technology! My comment was intended as a response to the OP:
How useful is a wiki for alignment? There doesn’t seem to be one now.
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i’ve found that the lw wiki doesn’t work as a wikipedia-like resource, at least for me
The thing I was saying was that there exists extremely few wikis whose entries “work as a Wikipedia-like resource”, which I understood as something like “a canonical reference for those concepts that is widely assumed to be shared and gets frequently references among most people working in the field”.
Wikis mostly serve other niches. There are very few wikis whose entries become the standard way to reference something in a community or field, outside of some niche domains where they do often reach that level of common-knowledge (like fandoms).
Sorry, I of course meant to say here “widely-used wikis” or “successful wikis”, though I feel like it was reasonably implied from context.
The activity levels of the wikis you link do indeed vary widely. Some of them are basically dead, others seem to see lots of activity. Some examples:
Scholarpedia (one article in all of 2025):
Proteopedia (lots of activity)
Wikis are a totally useful technology! My comment was intended as a response to the OP:
The thing I was saying was that there exists extremely few wikis whose entries “work as a Wikipedia-like resource”, which I understood as something like “a canonical reference for those concepts that is widely assumed to be shared and gets frequently references among most people working in the field”.
Wikis mostly serve other niches. There are very few wikis whose entries become the standard way to reference something in a community or field, outside of some niche domains where they do often reach that level of common-knowledge (like fandoms).