Rationalist Wiki

One of the things I'm coming to enjoy most about LW is the pronounced lack of bystander effect. Thank you for continuing that trend =)

A rationality wiki seems like a nice thing to have, but I wonder if the current wiki framework is sufficient unto the task. I would like to see comments with threading and voting on the wiki page, and be able to publish the wiki page as though a blog post - which might be a small task of integration, or might be a very large one. I tried to build a wiki earlier, on a certain subject that may not be named, and it sorta petered out. I'd love to have the rationalist equivalent of TVTropes but I'm not entirely sure how to go about getting it - it might require a larger audience to start with, for one thing.

- http://ricketyclick.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/12/quote-of-the-day-wearing-the-clown-suit/

I've created a new wiki on Wikia.

badger, would you be so good as to edit your post to add a pointer to mine? Thanks!

Could we maybe make the wiki questions-first, or questions-indexed, instead of topics-first? So that one walks into the wiki and sees the questions with which we are engaged (each linked to the partial progress we've made to date, and the open sub-questions on which we'd particularly appreciate new contributions)? Questions, or problems for which we want solutions, could make for a more motivating, curiosity-arousing, this-is-why-we're-bothering approach to a table of contents. (And then new posts could be added to the appropriate question, and newcomers could find that new post fairly naturally as they follow out their questions. Also, writers might see how certain potential posts might add to a common project.)

I'd be happy to make a first draft questions list in that direction if people think it a good idea.

Another significant question for hypothetical wiki entries: A lot of the wiki material will be summarizing or collecting ideas from posts on OB and LW. What kind of policy do the authors of said material want to see about putting material into the wiki? Is, say, direct copying of key paragraphs okay to flesh out the wiki, or is rewording preferred?

Does TiddlyWiki have any functionality for tracking revisions and/or reverting to previous versions, a la MediaWiki? I expanded one of your stub entries, but didn't see any way to view the previous version.