[ExI] Alexander Chislenko article on English Wikipedia in danger of deletion

[Anders Sandberg]

On 2016-03-08 09:35, Giulio Prisco wrote:
> That's why instead of one social system there should be many.
Economies of scale.

Consider Scholarpedia - http://www.scholarpedia.org/ It has articles 
written by domain experts. The result is that it covers a few domains, 
and even in these domains many key articles are not written yet. The 
existing articles are generally good, but getting the expert to take 
time to write the article on her topic of expertise is hard: they might 
promise one, but actually getting it done between the research and grant 
writing is hard.

If every community wrote their own wiki, we would have a lot of wikis. 
But they would tend to cover only a part of even what the community 
considers important, let alone what other communities would like to 
know. Worse, their productivity would be low, both in terms of article 
production and maintenance (which is strongly dependent on number of 
editors).



-- 
Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University