Effective altruism wiki: Intuitively, this makes a lot of sense as a means of organizing knowledge of a particular community. Also, if the US Intelligence Community is doing it, it has to be good. I know that there have been attempts at this (e.g., arbital, priority.wiki,EAWiki). Unfortunately, these didn’t catch on as much as would be necessary to create a lot of value. Perhaps there are still ways of pulling this off though. See here and here for recent discussions.
In addition to the wikis, there are also EA Concepts and the LessWrong Wiki, which have similar roles.
Two hypotheses for why these encyclopedias didn’t catch on so far:
Lack of coordination: Existing projects seemed to focus on content but not quality standards, editing/moderation, etc. Projects weren’t maintained long-term. It probably wasn’t sufficiently clear how new volunteers could best contribute. Resources were split between multiple projects.
Perhaps EA is still too small. Most communities with successful wikis have fairly large communities.
Personally, I’d be very excited about a better-coordinated and better-edited EA concepts/wiki. (I know of someone who is planning to work on this.)
In addition to the wikis, there are also EA Concepts and the LessWrong Wiki, which have similar roles.
Two hypotheses for why these encyclopedias didn’t catch on so far:
Lack of coordination: Existing projects seemed to focus on content but not quality standards, editing/moderation, etc. Projects weren’t maintained long-term. It probably wasn’t sufficiently clear how new volunteers could best contribute. Resources were split between multiple projects.
Perhaps EA is still too small. Most communities with successful wikis have fairly large communities.
Personally, I’d be very excited about a better-coordinated and better-edited EA concepts/wiki. (I know of someone who is planning to work on this.)
Hello! I started eawiki.org just a few weeks ago to try to reinvigorate the concept—will do a proper launch sometime soon.