Audience size is a big challenge here. There might be a few thousand people who are interested enough in EA to participate in the community at all (beyond donating to charity or joining an occasional dinner with their university group). Of those, only a fraction will be interested in contributing to crowdsourced intellectual work.
By contrast, StackOverflow has a potential audience of millions, and Wikipedia’s is larger still. And yet, the most active 1% of editors might account for… half, maybe, of the total content on those sites? (Couldn’t quickly find reliable numbers.)
If we extrapolate to the EA community, our most active 1% of contributors would be roughly 10 people, and I’m guessing those people already find EA-focused ways to spend their time (though I can’t say how those uses compare to creating content on a website like the one you proposed).
Audience size is a big challenge here. There might be a few thousand people who are interested enough in EA to participate in the community at all (beyond donating to charity or joining an occasional dinner with their university group). Of those, only a fraction will be interested in contributing to crowdsourced intellectual work.
By contrast, StackOverflow has a potential audience of millions, and Wikipedia’s is larger still. And yet, the most active 1% of editors might account for… half, maybe, of the total content on those sites? (Couldn’t quickly find reliable numbers.)
If we extrapolate to the EA community, our most active 1% of contributors would be roughly 10 people, and I’m guessing those people already find EA-focused ways to spend their time (though I can’t say how those uses compare to creating content on a website like the one you proposed).