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What is this wiki for?

Let's ask and answer questions together.

Each page of this wiki will be centered on one question (with possible subquestions). It's not clear yet what questions should be allowed. But at least some of these questions will be open questions. That is, they won't have any known answers yet. For these open question pages we'll track relevant sources, related questions, possible/proposed answers, possible experiments to decide between the answers etc. Basically the page would distill where the frontier of knowledge is on that question, and possible ways to push that frontier forward.

See here and here for some of the motivations for this project and possible alternative platforms for answering open questions.

How is this different than quora, stack exchange, or any other q&a website?

Those sites tend to have problems with duplicated questions. Even stack exchange which tries to flag duplicated questions doesn't take down the duplicate question, they just link to other similar questions. This wiki would ideally contain no duplicate questions or duplicate answers.

Those platforms have a particular format where one person gives the question and the answers are all given by one person each. On this wiki we can all collaborate on stating the question, and we collaborate on the possible answers. We also collaborate on keeping the question and it's possible answers up to date (whereas in many of those places it's up to the original commenter to update their answers).

When a question is an open question where work could be done in finding the answers, this wiki can coordinate those efforts. Those platforms generally are better suited for questions that already have answers.

WikiHow is perhaps the most similar to this project in that it is a wiki. But it's only for "how" related questions whereas this wiki will be more generic, it's run by a for-profit company, and it's not really suited to open ended questions.

How do we add a question page?

First search for the question in the search bar. If it doesn't look like the question has been asked, you'll be able to add the question page in the search results page.

Open questions about this wiki

Where should we collaborate on open questions?

How should humanity collaborate on answering open questions?

What type of questions should be allowed on openquestions.wiki?

Other open questions

How can we be better stewards of the information ecosystem?

Why is homelessness getting worse in certain states and not others?

What’s the best open research platform?

Do slow people have any advantages over fast people?

What are the biggest problems facing humanity?

Why is political polarization (at least in USA) increasing?

Why is there so much (and rising) homelessness in California?

How do we know which media to trust?

Did Trump actually want to be president or was he running for president for publicity?

Is wealth inequality bad?

What are the pro's and con's of capitalism?