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Are my Wikitag edits effective?

by August Morley
11th Sep 2025
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Are my Wikitag edits effective?
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habryka

Sep 11, 2025

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I think they are decent! I have quibbles, but they are definitely better than the current state. 

If I were you, I would focus on writing descriptions for the concepts and wikitags that are somewhat unique to the rationality community. Nobody is really going to benefit that much from a paragraph defining "social skills", but one defining "distillation" is a lot more useful.

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dirk

Sep 11, 2025

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I personally like them! They don't specifically benefit me because I already have most of that knowledge, but I think having definitions attached to the tags is far superior to not having them, so I appreciate your efforts here. (And the definitions themselves also looked reasonable, being both concise and accurate as definitions should be.)

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I've become increasingly interested in the topic of organizational knowledge management (i.e. how communities can most effectively store, distill, and share the information they create).

This has manifested in a drive to create a summary for every LW wikitag stub that isn't behind a "Load More" button click (i.e. among the top 30 tags under each Core Tag).  I've done 9 so far and I'd love to get some feedback.

Are the summaries I'm writing near the mark of what the community thinks they should be?  At the meta level, is there a better way I could leverage my interest in knowledge management / distillation to benefit the community?