But I do think it would be helpful for an experienced Wikipedia editor like Pablo to write up some brief advice on how volunteers can add EA content to Wikipedia while adhering to all their rules.
Darius Meissner and I are in the process of writing exactly such a document.
I feel like another thing that might help with causing more EAs to actually do this (as opposed to helping them do it better) is finding a way to make the impact of editing important Wikipedia articles more legible to other EAs and more likely to benefit one’s status. Maybe it could be as simple as someone high-status in EA emphasising how valuable this is in a salient way (like a new top-level post, rather than a comment or an old post) and encouraging other EAs to link to their Wikipedia user profile from their EA Forum bio.
Darius Meissner and I are in the process of writing exactly such a document.
Great!
I feel like another thing that might help with causing more EAs to actually do this (as opposed to helping them do it better) is finding a way to make the impact of editing important Wikipedia articles more legible to other EAs and more likely to benefit one’s status. Maybe it could be as simple as someone high-status in EA emphasising how valuable this is in a salient way (like a new top-level post, rather than a comment or an old post) and encouraging other EAs to link to their Wikipedia user profile from their EA Forum bio.
Nice!
In the meantime or in addition, some readers of this thread might be interested in some related things Brian Tomasik wrote:
The Value of Wikipedia Contributions in Social Sciences
Tomasik’s ideas for pages to create or improve
(I think I’ve only skimmed these myself.)