The Wiki is Coming

For the last month, I have been quietly working on a different project: the Austrian Economics Wiki on http://austrianeconomics.wikia.com/.

Wikia is, I think, a good place for fringe groups, benefiting from its connection to Wikipedia, but having different criteria, that would shoot down a lot of content from the Austrian School. It is also quite visible (Alexa rank 300) by itself. The wiki I took was made 2007 or so, but there was absolutely no content, so it was ready for a take over. I made a few pages, of course there needs to be much more.

The wiki needs a community, I hope to attract some editors. The forums of Mises.org will be a good start recruit them. It also needs more visibility, which will come with more content.


Now, there are a few more wikis, or at least wiki-like pages out there with the same or similar theme. Ignoring the lack of content in some, none of them are 'true' wikis. They do not interlink enough and don't do much in the way of referencing. While a pain to make, it is actually pretty important, if one would like to argument for or against a certain concept - and this wiki should, in the end, contain a lot of such arguments (not to mention that it looks impressive if the references to authors and their works are all there). I have started with one, there is A LOT to add; and a lot more arguments to be made. The wiki will provide the theoretical background and definitions of basic concepts, plus a ton of pointers for anyone interested. Some of the articles, if they, say, link to pretty much every work of a given person, might become general sources... but we'll see.

Let's hope it works out. Please help this wiki to grow.