Propose and vote on potential EA Wiki articles /​ tags [2022]

MichaelA🔸8 Apr 2022 7:09 UTC
38 points
55 comments2 min readEA link

The EA Forum has wiki articles that typically double as tags, and users can propose or make new articles/​tags (i.e., “entries”) themselves. I think this is quite useful, and I’ve now made a bunch of entries. This post exists so that people can comment with an article/​tag idea that they’re somewhat unsure about, and then other people can upvote it or downvote it based on whether they think it should indeed be its own tag.

As the EA Wiki FAQ says:

The Wiki is missing an entry on a topic I would like to see covered. Can I create it?

First, check that the topic is not already covered by an entry with a different name.

Once you have confirmed that the Wiki is missing an article for this topic, you can propose it here [the older version of this post] and receive feedback. We recommend this option for most new entries, since it gives experienced users the chance to make useful suggestions.

[But] Alternatively, you can also create the entry without asking for feedback. This approach may be appropriate if you think the entry is clearly worth adding (e.g. an entry for GiveWell’s newest top charity). However, the entry may be removed if the admins decide that it fails to meet our criteria for inclusion.

Some further info:

  • Please make a separate comment for each entry idea.

  • I suggest upvoting or downvoting entry proposals just based on the entry idea itself; to address any additional ideas in the entry proposal comment (e.g., the proposed description), leave a reply.

  • I suggest having a low bar for commenting here, such as “this is just a thought that occurred to me” or “5% chance this entry should exist”.

    • It’s often good to be open to raising all sorts of ideas when brainstorming, and apply most of the screening pressure after the ideas are raised.

    • In line with this, the entry ideas I have myself proposed are often “just spitballing”.

  • Feel free to also propose alternative entry labels, propose a rough entry description, note what other entries are related to this one, note what you see as the arguments for and against that entry, and/​or list some posts that would be included in this tag. But also feel free to simply suggest a tag label.

    • In line with this, I have myself often provided all of this info, often provided some, and often simply suggested a tag label.

  • Feel free to comment on other people’s ideas in order to do any of the above things (propose alternative labels, etc.).

  • Please try to be as willing to downvote as to upvote, rather than having a higher bar for negativity (i.e., be willing to downvote even if your view is just a quick hot take, just as you would with upvotes).

    • This post exists specifically to allow people to get honest input on entry ideas before creating them.

    • And people commenting here are not necessarily claiming that they thin their entry ideas are definitely good, just that they’re worth at least brief thought, so the downvote isn’t really disagreeing with them.

Also feel free to use this as a thread to discuss (and upvote or downvote suggestions regarding) existing entries that might not be worth having, or might be worth renaming or tweaking the scope of, or what-have-you. (For example, I created the tag Political Polarisation, but I also left a comment here about whether it should be changed or removed.)

This is a repeat of an earlier open thread, since the earlier thread had so many comments that it started taking a while to load. The Forum team and Pablo (who does a lot of the work for the EA Wiki) are both in favour of this thread and I think have subscribed to get notified of new comments.

MichaelA🔸8 Apr 2022 7:09 UTC
38 points
55 comments2 min readEA link