Additionaly, if anyone is interested in helping with web design for the main page or pre-launch content, let me know and I’ll make you an account (signups are disabled to keep out the spambots which plague unprotected wikis).
Eric_Bruylant
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Hi! I’m working on the new EA Wiki (http://wiki.effectivealtruismhub.com/w/index.php?title=Effective_Altruism_Wiki https://impact.hackpad.com/EA-Wiki-y8z6wp5yCxD). I’ve been distracted by preparing for the MIRI/CFAR summer fellows thing for the past month and a bit, but have been encouraged to try and get it public before EA Global. I should be able to get the bits I’d like ready in time, except for Single Sign On (which is important because wikis have massive spam problems otherwise, and it would allow people to contribute without making a new account lowering barrier to entry).
My plan was to use OAuth, the MediaWiki extension is slightly outdated but looks like it should work (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OAuthAuthentication) but the extension for drupal which would be needed for eahub to be an oauth provider (https://www.drupal.org/project/oauthloginprovider) seems quite outdated. I’m open to suggestions for other ways to handle SSO, but would like to hand it to someone else so I can focus on the bits of setup I’m already familiar with.
Is anyone interested in helping out?
As someone who’s spent a significant amount of time thinking about possible rearrangements of civilization, reading On Saving The World was both tantalizing and frustrating (as well as cementing your position as one of the most impressive people I am aware of). I understand building up from the ground, covering all the pre-requisites and inferential distance, would be a huge effort and currently not worth your time, but I feel like even a terse summary without any detailed justifications for suggestions based on of all those years of thought would be highly interesting, and a pointer towards areas worth exploring.
Would you be willing to at least summarize some of your high-level conclusions, with the understanding that you’re not going to attempt to defend, justify, or develop them in any depth since you have higher priorities?
Testing pluggins for MediaWiki and drupal, likely updating them to be compatible with the latest versions, possibly adjusting a few parameters so they pass each other the right info.