RiskiPedia is a collaborative, data-driven, interactive encyclopedia of risks. Well, it is far from an encyclopedia right now; it is just launching, and mostly consists of half-baked pages I’ve created to exercise the MediaWiki extensions that make the pages interactive.
Try it at https://riski.wiki -- you can explore the chances you'll end up in the emergency room tomorrow or the risk you'll get mauled by a grizzly if you spend all summer hiking in Glacier National park.
I’m working on it because I’ve been frustrated that risks are typically presented as binary “safe” or “dangerous”, usually with no mention of how dangerous or safe. I hope it will help people think more clearly about... (read 155 more words →)
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RE: routing risks to the people who need to see them: if your great aunt bertha is worried that you'll get killed by a grizzly bear because you're visiting Yosemite in a month, I'm hoping you would route the "risk of being killed by a bear" page to her. Numbers might not convince her... but I think they will sway some people.
RE: costs: good idea. If you like, you can create an account and add cost information to the ER visit page-- dollars or hours. Or maybe create a sub-page with dollar/time costs, since those might vary a lot by country or state or city.
RE: different... (read more)