I’m surprised that you think that the bottleneck is in funding, I guess that means that I overestimate the easiness and desirability of using some existing tools.
Interested in your take on it :)
Perhaps that is misleading—let me rephrase—if the solution really requires creating a new infrastructure then I’d say funding would be a bottle neck (not that funds don’t exist, but they aren’t always easy to get), but getting the right people to build the infrastructure would probably be a bottleneck too.
I actually did not give that enough thought. I think using MediaWiki or Wikidot might be fine for start, and I am very fond of Roam. Notion might be great here as well. All of them require getting used to because the syntax is not straightforward, but that suffices for textual edits if there are people who go over and fix design problems. Roam is more difficult because it is… different.. and because it is less mature. Roam being in it’s starting phases might actually be a good thing, because it’s development can probably shift to the needs of the EA community in this case if the EA Wiki will be hosted there (Roam Research received a grant from the Long Term Future Fund)
That is all to say that I think a basic wiki infrastructure might be fine for start, if there is a good roadmap and support from the community. I assume that markets and fancy prizes can wait for later or be hacked into existence, but maybe that should be in the design from the start 🤷♂️
I’m surprised that you think that the bottleneck is in funding, I guess that means that I overestimate the easiness and desirability of using some existing tools.
Interested in your take on it :)
Perhaps that is misleading—let me rephrase—if the solution really requires creating a new infrastructure then I’d say funding would be a bottle neck (not that funds don’t exist, but they aren’t always easy to get), but getting the right people to build the infrastructure would probably be a bottleneck too.
What existing tools were you thinking of?
I actually did not give that enough thought. I think using MediaWiki or Wikidot might be fine for start, and I am very fond of Roam. Notion might be great here as well. All of them require getting used to because the syntax is not straightforward, but that suffices for textual edits if there are people who go over and fix design problems. Roam is more difficult because it is… different.. and because it is less mature. Roam being in it’s starting phases might actually be a good thing, because it’s development can probably shift to the needs of the EA community in this case if the EA Wiki will be hosted there (Roam Research received a grant from the Long Term Future Fund)
That is all to say that I think a basic wiki infrastructure might be fine for start, if there is a good roadmap and support from the community. I assume that markets and fancy prizes can wait for later or be hacked into existence, but maybe that should be in the design from the start 🤷♂️