Followup on this: Arbital is still going (recent changes shows consistent activity, mostly from MIRI people) and now has the tag line "Arbital is the place for crowdsourced, intuitive math explanations." This is an area it might actually get somewhere with - en:wp's mathematics articles are notoriously opaque and not good for explaining a concept to people who don't already understand it. And CC-by-sa educational articles on math are a win for everyone.
On 14 March 2016 at 01:03, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Being put together by Eliezer Yudkowsky of LessWrong. Content is cc-by-sa 3.0, don't know about the software.
https://arbital.com/p/arbital_ambitions/
Rather than the "encyclopedia" approach, it tries to be more pedagogical, teaching the reader at their level.
Analysis from a sometime Yudkowsky critic on Tumblr: http://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/140995096534/a-year-ago-i-remember-bei...
(there's a pile more comments linked from the notes on that post, mostly from quasi-fans; I have an acerbic comment in there, but you should look at the site yourself first.)
No idea if this will go anywhere, but might be of interest; new approaches generally are. They started in December, first publicised it a week ago and have been scaling up. First day it collapsed due to load from a Facebook post announcement ... so maybe hold off before announcing it everywhere :-)
- d.