I am skeptical if making an EA Wiki is better than uploading EA-relevant articles on Wikipedia (https://www.wikipedia.org/).
There are many other arguments for why it wouldn’t be a good idea, but I want to focus on the target group.
Case 1: The target group is EAs. In this case, the EA Wiki would probably host in-depth/comprehensive knowledge that is not available on places EA’s normally visit like 80000hours.org or effectivealtruism.org. It would serve for questions like “Has anyone in EA ever talked about __?”. As of now, most of this “in-depth” knowledge is present in the form of EA Forum posts and comments. Most of the content on the EA Wiki would be copy-pasted from the EA Forum. The EA Forum is well-searchable, and it already fulfills this purpose. For long-run things like “how should the EA content be organized in the long run (e.g. 5 years later)”, an EA Wiki may be more promising. But, for the reasons written above, it is difficult to see any real use of it in the short term (e.g. 1-2 years).
Case 2: The target group is non-EAs. The EA Wiki wouldn’t show up in search engines. Period. Wikipedia articles appear much more easily on search engines and are linked to by other Wikipedia articles. A much better idea would be to upload EA-relevant articles on Wikipedia. Also, there is more scope for extending EA to other languages since Wikipedia supports articles in a 5-10 other languages.
I am skeptical if making an EA Wiki is better than uploading EA-relevant articles on Wikipedia (https://www.wikipedia.org/).
There are many other arguments for why it wouldn’t be a good idea, but I want to focus on the target group.
Case 1: The target group is EAs. In this case, the EA Wiki would probably host in-depth/comprehensive knowledge that is not available on places EA’s normally visit like 80000hours.org or effectivealtruism.org. It would serve for questions like “Has anyone in EA ever talked about __?”. As of now, most of this “in-depth” knowledge is present in the form of EA Forum posts and comments. Most of the content on the EA Wiki would be copy-pasted from the EA Forum. The EA Forum is well-searchable, and it already fulfills this purpose. For long-run things like “how should the EA content be organized in the long run (e.g. 5 years later)”, an EA Wiki may be more promising. But, for the reasons written above, it is difficult to see any real use of it in the short term (e.g. 1-2 years).
Case 2: The target group is non-EAs. The EA Wiki wouldn’t show up in search engines. Period. Wikipedia articles appear much more easily on search engines and are linked to by other Wikipedia articles. A much better idea would be to upload EA-relevant articles on Wikipedia. Also, there is more scope for extending EA to other languages since Wikipedia supports articles in a 5-10 other languages.