[split] Ideas about a Law of One Wiki

[Asolsutsesvyl]

I have zero experience with wikis, but I have a big mouth, so here are some random thoughts on the matter.  It strikes me that simplest would be best.  Personally, I think that an article should offer (1) the known definition, (2) context to support the definitions, and (3) areas of application or connection to other ideas a reader might wish to pursue.  For instance, take Density.  (1) Give definitions from the Confederation sources, (2) maybe fill that in with implied or linking ideas and (3) offer ways the concept might fit with other concepts (incl. cross references).  

I'm just guessing, but it seems this could be done slowly over a period of time.  Per given article, (1) should be fairly simple, (2) a little more involved and (3) could have a life of its own.

The best idea I arrived at earlier is to copy Wikipedia's basic format for the main text. A paragraph or two on top written to give a clear-enough idea of what the topic really is (longer only if necessary), then the rest of the text divided into however many sub-sections below as makes sense. But more extensive quoting, relative to the volume of original text, can be expected compared to Wikipedia, I think. As in, initially writing on LOO topics could often make for copying various quotes from lawofone.info with links back there.

The topic of "Density" would naturally make for an article series, where articles on each density link back to the main article. I would try to make the main definition something which cleanly and logically follows from the main sources, with any ambiguities noted. Intuitively related ideas could be explored. And ideas mentioned in connection with the definition would also make for related "See also" topics.

Eventually, for fuller cross-referencing, I'd like to dig into related cosmologies, from the Fourth Way cosmology of a century ago (most refined in the post-Gurdjieff works of Boris Mouravieff), to the Cassiopaean cosmology (sorting out how it's really related to Ra's, with ambiguities noted). Some very general terms, such as "dimension" used in all kinds of ways by popular New Age authors and channeled sources, could also be related to "density", pointing out how things do and do not add up across differing kinds of frameworks. Many popular terms and small confusions of tongue could be explored.

(More work with wiki software extensions could, over time, allow for building up various structured pieces of data attached to wiki pages, allowing dynamic pages or just info-boxes inside the wiki that give results from that on stuff related to other stuff in various simple ways. But this may in part overlap with what lawofone.info provides in a more streamlined and performant way, and so may be best used for things the options there do not provide. Ideas may develop over time...)

Of course, this would be dependent upon an authority figure to clean it up and delete the garbage, no?  Yes?  How would that work?  Does the above ring soundly or as naive musings?

It could become an active project, in need of a lot of clean-up work, but it is also very possible that it would end up less active than wished for. Inactivity is initially a much greater risk than quality problems with the content, unless you get a dedicated "wiki vandal" (troll) who isn't removed, or spammers who aren't filtered out.

A good basic feature of wikis is that everything done can be undone, as all versions of pages are stored (unless explicitly deleted by an admin). There's also various systems that can be added later, to make it easier to keep it clean. A fairly heavy-duty solution is content review as done on German Wikipedia; it allows everyone to keep editing like before, but only trusted reviewers can change which version of a page is shown to guests; in a simpler form it is selectively enabled here and there as vandalism protection on English Wikipedia.

I think the focus at first can simply be to keep it welcoming and see how it may grow, unless/until there grows increased need for quality control. (The one big early exception to being welcoming: Keeping spammers out. With open editing or registration, you need protection against spammers just like on forums. A simple short-term solution is for people to only register by invitation - "give me your email address and you'll get a link to make an account" - but at length that may be limiting. Ease vs. easier growth enters over time.)

Also, what do think about the target audience, initially, being newcomers?

In terms of readers, I think it's a good goal for it to be useful for newbies, but also non-newbies. Apart from writing text about topics, it is possible to gather other types of information for e.g. readers from the forum. On the old "CassWiki", I combined three projects for that community:
1. The encyclopedic articles, or using pages for that. Pretty much self-explanatory.
2. Adding links at the end of pages to good forum discussions and other web pages, online documentaries, etc., useful for further information on the topic. This was meant to integrate and replace a somewhat earlier effort others had come up with, to gather the best links per subject area on the forum.
3. In that community there was/is an extensive recommended books "List and Guide" on the forum, which had grown short texts on various books and their significance. Moving it to the wiki in an expanded form.

Here, apart from good forum threads, examples of extra links which could be added at the end of articles on topics include to pages in L/L Research's archive which fit the topic. That could offer a well-structured means of catching up on a smaller subject.